Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Chladni's figures. See
nodal lines , under nodal.
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Its authenticity is greatly dependent on the phonic aspect, the integration of the sound-figures.
Archive 2009-08-01 David McDuff 2009
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German physicist Chladni (1756-1827) and called after him 'Chladni's sound-figures'.
Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs
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This we have in the so-called sound-figures, discovered by the
Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs
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Chladni on meteoric stones, etc., 118, 135; on the selenic origin of aerolites, 121; on the supposed phenomenon of ascending shooting stars, 122; on the obscuration of the Sun's disk, 133; sound-figures, 135; pulsations in the tails of comets, 143.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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Milan in 1650, and two Swedish sailors on board ship in 1674, yet this great cosmical phenomenon remained almost wholly unheeded, and its intimate connection drawn to the subject by Chladni, who had already gained immortal renown by his discovery of the sound-figures.
COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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