 | 1820 - 472 pàgines
...of the transition from perfect hearing to total want of perception, occasions a degree of surprize, which renders an experiment on this subject with a...small pipes among several persons rather amusing. It is curious to observe the change of feeling manifested by various individuals of the party, in succession,... | |
 | A.P. Beresford, Alexander Dedekind, Andrew Jameson, Auguste de Saint-Hilaire, Benjamin Kidd, Bouffier de Sauvages, Charles Bucke, Edward Latham Ormerod, Esq. Thomas Hale, George Hubbard, Harry Wallis Kew, Herbert S. Shorthouse, I. Hopkins, James Caldwell, James Cavanah Murphy, Lippi, M.M.M., T. Slevan, Thorsley, Travers James Briant, William Carr, William Dunbar, William Hyde Wollaston - 1820 - 474 pàgines
...may be sufficient to render the higher note inaudible, although the lower note is heard distinctly. The suddenness of the transition from perfect hearing...small pipes among several persons rather amusing. It is curious to observe the change of feeling manifested by various individuals of a party in succession,... | |
 | 1824 - 628 pàgines
...may be sufficient to render the higher note inaudible, although the lower note is heard distinctly. The suddenness of the transition from perfect hearing...small pipes among several persons rather amusing. It is curious to observe the change of feelihg manifested by various individuals of a parly in succession,... | |
 | 1821 - 520 pàgines
...may be sufficient to render the higher note inaudible, although the lower note is heard distinctly. The suddenness of the transition from perfect hearing...small pipes among several persons rather amusing. It is curious to observe the change of feeling manifested by various individuals of a party in succession,... | |
 | David Brewster - 1834 - 370 pàgines
...the transition," says Dr. Wollaston, " from perfect hearing to total want of perception, pccasions a degree of surprise, which renders an experiment...small pipes among several persons rather amusing. It is curious to observe the change of feeling manifested by various individuals of the party, in succession,... | |
 | Thomas Johnstone Aitkin - 1838 - 558 pàgines
...limit, at no great distance beyond the sounds ordinarily heard." He states further, " The suddenness of transition from perfect hearing to total want of perception,...small pipes, among several persons, rather amusing. It is curious io observe the change of feeling manifested by various individuals of the party in succession,... | |
 | William Mullinger Higgins - 1838 - 276 pàgines
...sound. The suddenness of transition from perfect hearing to total want of perception, says our author, " occasions a degree of surprise, which renders an experiment...small pipes, among several persons, rather amusing. A pipe, one-fourth of an inch in length, produced a souml'snpposed to be about six octaves above the... | |
 | 1842 - 1008 pàgines
...may be sufficient to render the higher note inaudible, although the lower note is heard distinctly. " The suddenness of the transition from perfect hearing...small pipes among several persons rather amusing. It ii curious to observe the change of feeling manifested by various individuals of the party, in succession,... | |
 | 1852 - 432 pàgines
...considerable number of persons, — we shall find a very distinct and striking difference between the hearing of different individuals, whose ears are, in other...are often compelled, in their turn, to acknowledge how short a distance their superiority extends. Dr. Wollaston found, that one of his friends was quite... | |
 | John Henry Pepper - 1869 - 722 pàgines
...philosopher remarks that " The suddenness of transition from perfect hearing to total want of pereeption occasions a degree of surprise, which renders an experiment...small pipes, among several persons, rather amusing. " A pipe, one-fourth of an inch in length, produced a sound supposed to be about six octaves above... | |
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The suddenness of the transition from perfect hearing to total want of perception, occasions a degree of surprise, which renders an experiment on this subject with a series of small pipes among several persons rather amusing. It is curious to observe... 
