... individuals less known than Helmholtz or Florens Friedrich Chladni, [End Page 208] the “father of acoustics”: the late-eighteenth-century German poet Wilhelm Heise, the French médecin-philosophe Claude-Nicolas le Cat, a representative of Enlightenment otology who evolved into a critic of Cartesian-style resonance theory, and the German scientist Johann Wilhelm Ritter. Erlmann’s book is not only ...
Tópico(s): Diverse Musicological Studies
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