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Treatise on Acoustics

The First Comprehensive English Translation of E.F.F. Chladni's Traité d’Acoustique

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  1. E.F.F. Chladni

    1. Wittenberg, Germany

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  • Represents the first comprehensive English translation of a seminal work in acoustics

  • Translated by a prominent acoustician, and former Gold Medal recipient of the Acoustical Society of America

  • In addition to the classic experiments with glass plates and violin bows, covers topics in music, architecture, and the anatomy of human and animal hearing

  • Appeals to a wide audience in physics, acoustics, and history of science

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxi
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  2. Preliminary Observations

    • E. F. F. Chladni
    Pages 1-2

  3. Numerical Ratios of Vibrations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 3-3
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    2. Section 1: Primary Ratios

      • E. F. F. Chladni
      Pages 5-18

    3. Section 2: Altered Ratios or Temperament

      • E. F. F. Chladni
      Pages 19-25

  4. Characteristic Vibrations of Sounding Bodies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Section 1: General Remarks

      • E. F. F. Chladni
      Pages 29-32

    3. Section 2: Vibrations of Strings

      • E. F. F. Chladni
      Pages 33-39

    4. Section 3: Vibrations of a Stretched Membrane

      • E. F. F. Chladni
      Pages 41-42

    5. Section 4: Vibrations of the Air in a Wind Instrument

      • E. F. F. Chladni
      Pages 43-55

    6. Section 5: Vibrations of a Rod or a Straight Strip

      • E. F. F. Chladni
      Pages 57-67

    7. Section 6: Vibrations of a Bent Rod

      • E. F. F. Chladni
      Pages 69-71

    8. Section 7: Vibrations of Plates

      • E. F. F. Chladni
      Pages 73-122

    9. Section 8: Vibrations of Bells and Vessels

      • E. F. F. Chladni
      Pages 123-126

    10. Section 9: On the Coexistence of Several Modes of Vibration in the Same Sounding Body

      • E. F. F. Chladni
      Pages 127-134

    11. Section 10: On the Coexistence of Vibrations with Other Sorts of Motions

      • E. F. F. Chladni
      Pages 135-136

  5. On Transmitted Vibrations, or the Propagation of Sound

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 137-137
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    2. Section 1: On the Propagation of Sound Through Air and Through Other Gaseous Fluids

      • E. F. F. Chladni
      Pages 139-162

    3. Section 2: On the Propagation of Sound Through Liquids and Solids

      • E. F. F. Chladni
      Pages 163-170

  6. On the Sensation of Sound: On the Hearing of Men and Animals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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About this book

E.F.F. Chladni’s experiments and observations with sound and vibrations profoundly influenced the development of the field of Acoustics. The famous Chladni diagrams along with other observations are contained in Die Akustik, published in German in 1802 and Traité d’Acoustique, a greatly expanded version, published in French in 1809. This is the first comprehensive translation of the expanded French version of Traité d’Acoustique, using the 1802 German publication for reference and clarification.  The translation was undertaken by Robert T. Beyer, PhD (1920-2008), noted acoustician, Professor of Physics at Brown University, and Gold Medal recipient of the Acoustical Society of America. Along with many other projects completed over the course of his career, Dr. Beyer translated Von Neumann’s seminal work, Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics from the original German, spent 30 years translating Russian physics treatises and journals, served as editor of the English translation of the Soviet Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics, and also authored Sounds of our Times: Two Hundred Years of Acoustics.

Reviews

“The book gives a good and detailed insight into the times of pre-numerical acoustics around 1800. Robert T. Beyer's book can be recommended to those willing to study in detail what the thoughts of a leading experimental physicist were—despite that they were all called ‘philosophers at that time.” (Heinrich Metzen, Noise Control Engineering Journal, Vol. 64 (5), September-October, 2016)

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  • Wittenberg, Germany

    E.F.F. Chladni

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