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Now hear this : a book about sound / / John Naylor
| Now hear this : a book about sound / / John Naylor |
| Autore | Naylor John |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (348 pages) |
| Disciplina | 534 |
| Soggetto topico | Sound |
| ISBN |
9783030898779
9783030898762 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Contents -- 1 Just Listening -- A Brief History of Noise -- These Ears Were Made for Listening -- Making Sense of Sounds -- Name that Sound -- Seeing with Sound -- Soundworlds -- The Business of Listening -- Soundscapes -- The Gentle Art of Listening -- 2 Pythagoras' Hammers -- Music and the Origins of Science -- The Nature of Sound According to the Ancient Greeks -- The Dark Ages and Beyond -- The Scientific Revolution -- The Sound of Music -- Resonant Sounds -- How Fast Does Sound Travel in Air? -- The Entwined Histories of Light and Sound -- Air is not the Only Medium -- Sound in Water -- Sound and the Vacuum -- 3 Sound Science -- Mind Over Matter -- The Science of Vibrations -- Sounds and Waves -- Sounds Combined -- Sounds Impeded -- Sounds on Other Worlds -- The Evolution of the Ear -- Sounds Untangled -- The Paradoxes of Pitch -- How Big is that Sound? -- Hearing Lost and Found -- Locating Sounds -- The Cocktail Party Phenomenon -- The Limits of Audible Sound -- Biosonar -- 4 Sounds Abroad -- Noises from Afar -- Silent Nights and Noisy days -- Zones of Silence -- Volcanic Eruptions -- Brontides -- Underwater Sounds -- Keeping an Ear to the Ground -- Sound Shadows -- The Doppler Effect -- 5 Sounds Returned -- The Sound of Silence -- Echoes -- From Myth to Mathematics -- Multiple Echoes -- Echoes in Nature -- Musical Echoes -- Reflection Tones -- Echo Tubes and Culvert Whistlers -- Harmonic Echoes -- Whispering Galleries -- Echolocation in War and Peace -- Reverberation -- Paleolithic Cathedrals -- 6 Making Noise -- Impacts -- Musical Stones -- Acoustic Whistlers -- Good Vibrations -- Listening to a Seashell -- The Sound of Froth -- The Human Voice -- Helium Voice -- Singing in a Bathroom -- The Sounds of Friction -- Singing Wine Glass -- Shattering a Wine Glass with the Human Voice.
Squeals of Delight -- Singing Sands -- Booming Sands -- Babbling Brooks and Hissing Kettles -- In Praise of Dripping Taps -- The Kettle's Song -- Bees in Trees -- The Howl of the Wind -- Aeolian Harps -- Whistle While You Work -- Shock Waves -- Sonic Booms -- Bullwhips -- Explosions -- Thunder -- A Final Clap -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910510538803321 |
Naylor John
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| Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Now hear this : a book about sound / / John Naylor
| Now hear this : a book about sound / / John Naylor |
| Autore | Naylor John |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (348 pages) |
| Disciplina | 534 |
| Soggetto topico | Sound |
| ISBN |
9783030898779
9783030898762 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Contents -- 1 Just Listening -- A Brief History of Noise -- These Ears Were Made for Listening -- Making Sense of Sounds -- Name that Sound -- Seeing with Sound -- Soundworlds -- The Business of Listening -- Soundscapes -- The Gentle Art of Listening -- 2 Pythagoras' Hammers -- Music and the Origins of Science -- The Nature of Sound According to the Ancient Greeks -- The Dark Ages and Beyond -- The Scientific Revolution -- The Sound of Music -- Resonant Sounds -- How Fast Does Sound Travel in Air? -- The Entwined Histories of Light and Sound -- Air is not the Only Medium -- Sound in Water -- Sound and the Vacuum -- 3 Sound Science -- Mind Over Matter -- The Science of Vibrations -- Sounds and Waves -- Sounds Combined -- Sounds Impeded -- Sounds on Other Worlds -- The Evolution of the Ear -- Sounds Untangled -- The Paradoxes of Pitch -- How Big is that Sound? -- Hearing Lost and Found -- Locating Sounds -- The Cocktail Party Phenomenon -- The Limits of Audible Sound -- Biosonar -- 4 Sounds Abroad -- Noises from Afar -- Silent Nights and Noisy days -- Zones of Silence -- Volcanic Eruptions -- Brontides -- Underwater Sounds -- Keeping an Ear to the Ground -- Sound Shadows -- The Doppler Effect -- 5 Sounds Returned -- The Sound of Silence -- Echoes -- From Myth to Mathematics -- Multiple Echoes -- Echoes in Nature -- Musical Echoes -- Reflection Tones -- Echo Tubes and Culvert Whistlers -- Harmonic Echoes -- Whispering Galleries -- Echolocation in War and Peace -- Reverberation -- Paleolithic Cathedrals -- 6 Making Noise -- Impacts -- Musical Stones -- Acoustic Whistlers -- Good Vibrations -- Listening to a Seashell -- The Sound of Froth -- The Human Voice -- Helium Voice -- Singing in a Bathroom -- The Sounds of Friction -- Singing Wine Glass -- Shattering a Wine Glass with the Human Voice.
Squeals of Delight -- Singing Sands -- Booming Sands -- Babbling Brooks and Hissing Kettles -- In Praise of Dripping Taps -- The Kettle's Song -- Bees in Trees -- The Howl of the Wind -- Aeolian Harps -- Whistle While You Work -- Shock Waves -- Sonic Booms -- Bullwhips -- Explosions -- Thunder -- A Final Clap -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996466732003316 |
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Naylor John
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| Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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Watlington Hoard : Coinage, Kings and the Viking Great Army in Oxfordshire, AD875-880 / / John Naylor
| Watlington Hoard : Coinage, Kings and the Viking Great Army in Oxfordshire, AD875-880 / / John Naylor |
| Autore | Naylor John |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Place of publication not identified] : , : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, , 2022 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (260 pages) |
| Disciplina | 948.022 |
| Soggetto topico | Viking antiquities |
| ISBN |
9781789698305
1789698308 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Altri titoli varianti | Watlington Hoard |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910619460903321 |
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Naylor John
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| [Place of publication not identified] : , : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, , 2022 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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