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Treatise on Acoustics
The First Comprehensive English Translation of E.F.F. Chladni's Traité d’Acoustique
Author: E.F.F. Chladni ISBN: 9783319203614, 9783319203607
Pages: 227p., 25 illus., Available formats: Hardcover: $129.00
eBook: springer.com/shop MyCopy: springer.com/my- copy
Publication Date: 1st edition 2015, XXXI
Publisher: Springer Interna- tional Publishing
▶ 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 his- tory of science
This is the first comprehensive translation of the expanded French version of E.F.F. Chladni’s Traité d’Acoustique, us- ing Chladni's 1802 Die Akustik for reference and clarifica- tion. 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. The present transla- tion was undertaken by Robert T. Beyer, PhD (1920-2008), noted acoustician, Professor of Physics at Brown Univer- sity, 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 Me- chanics 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.
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