Vitruvius and the Early History of Wave Theory

WHEN DAYTON C. MILLER wrote the preface to his Anecdotal History of Sound in 1935, he justly complained about the lack of investigations in the history of sound.1 However, he, too, omitted a discussion of early wave theory, and relatively little work on history of sound appeared in the quarter century following 1935; an exception in general texts is W. P. D. Wightman's brief but excellent discussion.2 In view of the fact that wave theory has been so enormously fruitful particularly during the last century and a half, it is surprising that the history

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