10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CATACOUSTICS»
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catacoustics in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
catacoustics and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Poetry of Saying: British Poetry and Its Discontents ...
See Tom Raworth, Catacoustics, p. 7. 15 Raworth, Catacoustics, p. I. A small
excerpt from the text may be found in Raworth, Totter- ing State (first edition, 1984
) and TSSSand TSzooo. 1 6 Raworth, Catacoustics, p. 4. 17 Ibid., p. 35. 18 Ibid., p
.
2
Sporting Scenes and Sundry Sketches: Being the Miscellaneous ...
And most of the other terms which are used in treating of sound, are derived from
the above-mentioned words ; such as Diacoustics, CATACOUSTICS, &c." THAT
is the philosophy with which Cavello commences his Chapter IX., Part II., entitled
...
J. Cypress, Henry William Herbert, 1842
3
Origins: A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English
TheModE spelling isfolk etymologicalforoak(OE āc)+c0rn. acoustic, acoustics;
catacoustics; dysacousiaor acousis. The derives n acoustics fromtheadj acoustic,
much as ethics from ethic: and acoustic descends,perh via F acoustique, fromGr ...
4
A Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary Containing... ...
CATACOUSTICS, or Cataphonics, is the science of reflected sounds; or that part
of acoustics which treats of the properties of echoes. Catacoustics, in Military
Language, are ecoutes or small galleries, from distance to distance, in front of the
...
5
An encyclopœdia, or dictionary of music
CATACOUSTICS, the Bcience of reflected sounds, or that part of acoustics, which
considers the properties of echos. Catacoustics, therefore, to acoustics, is the
same as catroptics, to optics. CATAKELEUSMA, the third part of the Pythian
nome, ...
John Feltham Danneley, 1825
6
A New Universal Etymological, Technological, and Pronouncing ...
Casroarne, kss'to-riue, Casron-orn, kas'tur-oil, s. CASTORIN—CA'I'.
CATABAPTISTS—CATACOUSTICS. A crystalizable sub~ stance extracted from
castor by the action of alcohoL An oil extracted from the seeds of the Ricinus, a
West Indian ...
7
A New Universal, Technological, Etymological, and ...
CATABAPTISTS— CATACOUSTICS. CASTORIS, kas'to-rin, \ t. A crystalizable
sub- CASTORIXE, kas'tc-rine,) stance extracted from castor bj the action of
alcohol. CASTOB-OIL, kas'tur-oil, *. An oil extracted from the seeds of the Ritinus,
a West ...
8
A new universal etymological technological, and pronouncing ...
CATABAPTISTS— CATACOUSTICS. Castorw, kas'to-rin, \ s. A crystalizable sub-
Castorixb, kas'to-rine,j stance extracted from castor by the action of alcohol.
Castor-oil, kas'tur-oil, *. An oil extracted from the seeds of the Eicintis, a West
Indian ...
John Craig (F.G.S.), 1848
9
A New Universal Etymological, Technological and Pronouncing ...
An accident; sorae»*WATACOLA, kat-a-ko'la,«. (tata, and koleos, a sheath,
CATADIOPTRIC— CATANANCIIE. CATAPASM— CATARRH. r Catadioptbic, kat-
a-di-op'trik, > a. (kata,. CASTORIN— CAT. CATABAPTISTS— CATACOUSTICS.
John Craig (lexicographer.), 1849
10
A Philosophical and Mathematical Dictionary: Containing an ...
CATACOUSTICS, or Cataphonics, is the science of re rnoirs of the French
Academy of Sciences for. the year 1752, arid in some of his own works, as more
particularly noticed below. Bayer, in his Uranometria, published in 1603 a cata-
flected ...
