Inequality do not hinder the first from being manifest.
An introductory Essay to the Doctrine of Sounds , containing some Proposals for the improvement of Acousticks ; As it was presented to the Dublin Society , Nov. 12. 1683, by the Right Reverend Father in God Narcissus Lord Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin .
BEing to treat of the Doctrine of Sounds, I hold it convenient to premise something in the general, concerning this Theory; which may serve at once to ingage your Attention, and excuse my Pains, when I shall have recommended them, as bestow'd on a Subject not altogether useless and unfruitful.
And for this purpose I shall omit to speak any thing of the Excellency of the Matter in Hand; though it might be celebrated by Arguments drawn from several Topicks, and particularly from this, that new Discoveries and Improvements may be made, both as to the Generation, Propagation and Reception of Sounds into the Sense; which, in a peculiar manner agrees to this, above the Object of any other Sense whatsoever. I shall, I say, omit these things, and apply my self wholly to the Usefulness of the Theory, that we are now falling upon, which I think cannot better be discovered, than by making a comparison 'twixt