CHLADNI, Ernst Florens Friedrich.

Die Akustik...

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Engraved vignette port. of the author on title & eleven plates. 2 p.l., [iii]-xxxii, 304 pp., 1 leaf, 305-310 pp. Large 4to, cont. boards (some wear & occasional foxing). Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1802. First edition. “Chladni, professor of physics in Breslau, was the first to reduce the general association between vibration and pitch to a tabular basis and thus to lay the foundation of the modern science of acoustics. His first results were reported in ‘New Discoveries in the Theory of Sound’, 1787, and were greatly enlarged in ‘Acoustics’, 1802. He spread sand on plates made of metal and glass, which were fixed in clamps. He then applied a violin bow to the edge of each plate and recorded the patterns produced thereby in the sand. These figures are still known by Chladni’s name.”–Printing & the Mind of Man 233b. A good and large copy. In the collation given by N.U.C., the vignette on the title-page is counted as plate XII. Ex Bibliotheca Mechanica. ❧ Roberts & Trent, Bibliotheca Mechanica, p. 70–“the consummation of Chladni’s classical researches in the theory of sound...Timoshenko credits this work with arousing great interest in the theory of plates.” Sparrow, Milestones of Science, 38.

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