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  1. The Analogy between Light and Sound in the History of Optics from the Ancient Greeks to Isaac Newton. Part 1.Olivier Darrigol - 2010 - Centaurus 52 (2):117-155.
    Analogies between hearing and seeing already existed in ancient Greek theories of perception. The present paper follows the evolution of such analogies until the rise of 17th century optics, with due regard to the diversity of their origins and nature but with particular emphasis on their bearing on the physical concepts of light and sound. Whereas the old Greek analogies were only side effects of the unifying concepts of perception, the analogies of the 17th century played an important role in (...)
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