 | 1820 - 472 páginas
...on this subject with a series of small pipes among several persons rather amusing. It is curious to observe the change of feeling manifested by various...short a distance their little superiority extends. Though it has not yet occurred to me to observe a limit to the hearing of sharp sound in any person... | |
 | 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
...rather amusing. It is curious to observe the change of feeling manifested by various individuals of a party in succession, as the sounds approach and pass...short a distance their little superiority extends. Though it has not yet occurred to me to observe a limit to the hearing of sharp sound in any person... | |
 | James Rennie (surgeon.) - 1825 - 512 páginas
...persons, rather amusing. Those who enjoy a temporary triumph, from hearing notes inaudible to others, are often compelled in their turn to acknowledge to how short a distance thei superiority extends. Dr. Wollaston found that one of his friends was quite insensible to the sound... | |
 | 1821 - 520 páginas
...rather amusing. It is curious to observe the change of feeling manifested by various individuals of a party in succession, as the sounds approach and pass...short a distance their little superiority extends. Though it has not yet occurred to me to observe a limit to the hearing of sharp sound in any person... | |
 | 1824 - 628 páginas
...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 the...short a distance their little superiority 'extends. Though it has not yet occurred to me to observe a limit to the hearing of sharp sound in any person... | |
 | James Rennie - 1831 - 434 páginas
...persons, rather amusing. Those who enjoy a temporary triumph, from hearing notes inaudible to others, are often compelled, in their turn, to acknowledge to how short a distance their superiority extends. Dr. Wollaston accordingly found that one of his friends was quite insensible to... | |
 | 1842 - 1008 páginas
...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...short a distance their little superiority extends. " Though it has not yet occurred to me to observe a limit to the hearing of sharp sound in any persons... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1867 - 374 páginas
...experiment of this kind with a series of small pipes among several persons rather amusing. It is curious to observe the change of feeling manifested by va.rious...short a distance their little superiority extends.' 'Nothing can be more surprising,' writes Sir John Herschel, in reference to this subject, ' than to... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1867 - 372 páginas
...experiment of this kind with a series of small pipes among several persons rather amusing. It is curious to observe the change of feeling manifested by various...short a distance their little superiority extends.' 'Nothing can be more surprising,' writes Sir John Herschel, in reference to this subject, 'than to... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1867 - 364 páginas
...experiment of this kind with a series of small pipes among several persons rather amusing. It is curious to observe the change of 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... | |
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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... 
