Studying the echo in the early modern period
Between the Academy and the Natural World
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4012582 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leendert Van Der Miesen (0000-0002-6189-5835, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 196-214 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sound Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2055-1940 • E-ISSN: 2055-1959 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/20551940.2020.1794649 |
| OpenAlex | W3084275748 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 27 |
This article investigates the process by which the echo became one of the most prominent objects of study in early modern acoustics. Presenting a variety of scholarly work in seventeenth-century Europe, I argue that echo research in the period did not distance itself from the echo's place in mythology and natural history. On the contrary, the echo's existing function as an object of myth and curiosity helped it to attract attention in early modern scholarship. New methods of provoking, measuring, and calculating echo effects emerged, accompanied by descriptions of the echoes' local environments and representations of echo effects in books, journals, and questionnaires. As a much-discussed topic in the newly established scientific academies, echo research contributed to the formation of acoustics as a scientific discipline. Yet the echo remained an elusive object throughout the seventeenth century, driving questions on the nature of sound in a wide range of fields, and bringing together early modern fascinations with curiosity, mythology, and measurement
Acoustics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Curiosity · Early modern period · Echo (communications protocol · Linguistics · Mythology · Natural (archaeology · Object (grammar · Period (music · Physics · Political science · Scholarship · Variety (cybernetics · Classics · Computer Science · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Renaissance Literature and Culture · Artificial Intelligence
The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare
The natural history of Oxford-shire
Rhetoric, Women and Politics in Early Modern England
Discipline and Experience
Music, Science and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-Century England
The principia
Acoustics in the early Royal Society 1660-1680
Compiling nature's history
Music and Society in Early Modern England
Robert Boyle and the early Royal Society
Curiosity in early modem science
Myth, Science, and the Power of Music in the Early Decades of the Royal Society
Capturing Sound
A Social History of Truth
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |