Overview
- Explains the nature and creation of sound, how it travels through air and water
- Serves as a field guide to sounds and how to hear them for everyone who enjoys being out and about
- Explains how the hearing system converts these vibrations into sensation
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This book explains the nature of sound both as a physical phenomenon and as a sensation, how it travels through air and water, and how the hearing system evolved to convert these vibrations into sensations. Drawing on physics, biology, neuroscience, philosophy, literature, history, anecdote, and personal experience, "Now Hear This" is a wide-ranging exploration of the nature of sound and hearing that opens up a fascinating world of sounds from the mundane to the unusual and seeks above all to persuade the reader of the wisdom of John Cage’s advice that “Wherever we are what we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating.”
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
After studying engineering and philosophy at the University of London, John Naylor taught physics in secondary schools for the next thirty years. He retired from teaching in order to pursue his interests in atmospheric optics and acoustics. He is the author of “Out of the Blue,” a guide to the vast range of optical and astronomical phenomena that can be seen in the sky, day and night.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Now Hear This
Book Subtitle: A Book About Sound
Authors: John Naylor
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89877-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-89876-2Published: 27 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-89877-9Published: 30 November 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 334
Number of Illustrations: 57 b/w illustrations
Topics: Acoustics, Cognitive Psychology, Engineering Acoustics, Otorhinolaryngology, Audio-Visual Culture