Paper, 'Account of an echo' by Sir R [Robert] Moray
Reference number: CLP/2/34
Date: 1662
Description
Moray reports on an echo experiment he carried out near Rosneath [Argyll and Bute, Scotland]. He placed a trumpeter at a low ground, A, facing toward C, a house built of stone, and asked him to play eight semibreves for about ten seconds. The first echo appeared to come from between B, a rocky precipice, and C; the second one from around D, a church; and the third echo from between D and E, another church. Includes a diagram of the locations in the experiment as well as a musical score of the tune played by the trumpeter.
Subject: Acoustics
Read to the Royal Society on 3 December 1662.
- Reference number
- CLP/2/34
- Earliest possible date
- 1662
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 4 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Robert Moray, Paper, 'Account of an echo' by Sir R [Robert] Moray, 1662, CLP/2/34, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_2_34/paper-account-of-an-echo-by-sir-r-robert-moray, accessed on 05 November 2024
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Classified papers: volume 2 concerning 'Surveying, Opticks, Perspective, Sculpture, Painting, Music, Acoustics Mechanicks'
1656-1737 Reference number: CLP/2
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