possible to be done otherwise than was mention'd before in Refracted Audition .
I have now done with my Comparison of the two Noblest Senses, and Sciences, as to their Improvements; wherein I have been thus large, that I might give you a little prospect into the Excellency and Usefulness of Acousticks; and that thereby I might excite all that hear me, to bend
their Thoughts towards the making of Experiments for the compleating this (yet very imperfect, tho' noble) Science; a Specimen whereof I will give you in three Problems, and then present you with the Semiplane of an Acoustick or Phonical Sphere, as an Attempt to explicate the great Principle in this Science, which is The Progression of Sounds.
The Problems are these:
- Sonum intendere quousque velis; or, Datum sonum ad datum gradum intendere.
- Sonum extendere quousque velis; or, Datum sonum ad datum distantiam extendere seu propagare.
- Sonum transire ab extremo ad extremum & non per Medium.