 | 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 páginas
...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...change of feeling manifested by various individuals of a party in succession, as the sounds approach and pass the limits of their hearing. Those who enjoy... | |
 | 1821 - 520 páginas
...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...change of feeling manifested by various individuals of a party in succession, as the sounds approach and pass the limits of their hearing. Those who enjoy... | |
 | 1824 - 628 páginas
...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 the change of feelihg manifested by various individuals of a parly in succession, as the sounds approach and pass... | |
 | Thomas Johnstone Aitkin - 1838 - 558 páginas
...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 io observe the change of feeling manifested by various individuals of the party in succession, as the... | |
 | 1842 - 1008 páginas
...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 ii curious to observe the change of feeling manifested by various individuals of the party, in succession,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1867 - 364 páginas
...common house-sparrow are unheard by some people who for lower sounds possess a sensitive ear. The ascent of a single note is sometimes sufficient to produce...feeling manifested by various individuals of the party, iu succession, as the sounds approach and pass the limits of their hearing. Those who enjoy a temporary... | |
 | David Brewster - 1883 - 484 páginas
...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 tho change of feeling manifested by various individuals of the party, in succession, as the sounds... | |
 | David Brewster - 1883 - 488 páginas
...occasions a degree of surprise, which renders an experiment on this subject with a series of sraall pipes among several persons rather amusing. It is curious to observe the change of filling manifested by various individuals of the party, in succession, as the sounds approach and pass... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1915 - 492 páginas
...o1». etc. In England the deepest tone, Mr. Macfsrren informs me, is not E, but A, a fourth above it. which renders an experiment of this kind with a series...approach and pass the limits of their hearing. Those who en joy a temporary triumph are often compelled, in their turn, to acknowledge to how short a distance... | |
 | 1821 - 510 páginas
...total want of perception, occasions a degree of surprise, which render* an experiment on this subject with a series of small pipes among several persons...as the sounds approach and pass the limits of their lii'aring. Those who enjoy a temporary triumph, are often compelled, in their turn, to acknowledge... | |
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The suddenness of the transition,' writes Wollaston, ' from perfect hearing to total want of perception, occasions a degree of surprise which renders an experiment of this kind with a series of small pipes among several persons rather amusing. It is curious... 