Abstract
Sound, din, noise, clanging, hissing, voice, etc., are also aspects of an incorporeal virtue which can be stimulated through the rubbing or collision of bodies. This occurs when they mutually intercept or impinge upon another, as, for example, when a hammer strikes a bell, a staff a table, or when a body of any kind strikes another — then a sound is produced which is diffused throughout a defined sphere. When we are positioned within this sphere, our ears or any other receptive body perceives this sound.
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Von Guericke, O. (1994). The Sound-Producing and Echo-Producing Virtue. In: The New (So-Called) Magdeburg Experiments of Otto Von Guericke. Archives Internationales D’Histoire Des Idées / International Archives of the History of Ideas, vol 137. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2010-4_94
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