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Concept

Hearing

Images

  • The bones of the ear and of hearing. Etching, 1743.
  • Hieronymi Fabricii ab Aquapendente De visione, voce, auditu / [Fabricius].
  • Acoustics: a telephonic demonstration at an exhibition (in Paris?). Wood engraving, ca.1889.
  • The five senses: sight, surrounded by vignettes showing the other senses. Coloured lithograph by Belin.
  • Epistola physiologica inauguralis de elementariis musicae sensationibus / [Louis Odier].
  • A woman plays music to a stag; God condemns Adam and Eve to exile; representing the sense of hearing. Engraving by N. de Bruyn after M. de Vos.
  • Music being played to a lady, while above an angel blows a trumpet into Jerome's ear; representing the sense of hearing. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • Epistola physiologica inauguralis de elementariis musicae sensationibus / [Louis Odier].
  • A treatise of the organ of hearing, containing the structure, the uses and diseases of all the parts of the ear / Translated from the French [by John Marshall].
  • Hieronymi Fabricii ab Aquapendente De visione, voce, auditu / [Fabricius].
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Catalogue

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    An enquiry into the analytical mechanism of the internal ear / by Sir Thomas Wrightson ; with an appendix on the anatomy of the parts concerned / by Arthur Keith.

    Wrightson, Thomas, Sir, 1839-1921. | Date: 1918
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    A treatise of the organ of hearing, containing the structure, the uses and diseases of all the parts of the ear / Translated from the French [by John Marshall].

    Du Verney, M., 1648-1730. | Date: 1737
  • view Hearing and how to keep it / [Charles Henry Burnett].
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    Hearing and how to keep it / [Charles Henry Burnett].

    Burnett, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1842-1902. | Date: [between 1870 and 1879?]
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    Noise, hearing and deafness / Philip H. Beales.

    Beales, Philip H. | Date: [1965]
    • Audio

    Hearing and balance.

    | Date: 2005
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