Every branch of science attracts its share of cranks and pseudoscientists, and acoustics has been no exception. A brief survey of those who touched on acoustics is given with quotations from the more interesting or egregious examples. A contrast is drawn between the nineteenth century contrarian's quarrel with particular theories and the modern new age wholesale rejection of theory. This world-view is traced back to the later scientific writings of Goethe. Examples of pseudoscience applied to biomedical acoustics, architectural acoustics, and audio reproduction are given.
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Horning, Susan Schmidt;
(2013)
Chasing Sound: Technology, Culture, and the Art of Studio Recording from Edison to the LP
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Article
Klotz, Sebastian;
(2008)
Tonpsychologie und Musikforschung als Katalysatoren wissenschaftlich-experimenteller Praxis und der Methodenlehre im Kreis von Carl Stumpf
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Article
Rieger, Matthias;
(2008)
Unterscheidung und Synthese: Rezeptionsformen akustischer Forschung in der Musikliteratur des 19. Jahrhunderts
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Patrizio Barbieri;
(2023)
Tuning and Temperament: Practice vs Science. 1450-2020
(/isis/citation/CBB826943267/)
Article
Wilson, Preston S.;
Dolder, Craig N.;
Roy, Ronald A.;
Pierce, Allan D.;
(2014)
From Wood to Carey to Mallock: A Review of Bill Carey's Work Associated with the Mallock-Wood Equation and the Acoustics of Bubbly Liquids and Gas-Bearing Sediments
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Article
BaldisseraPacchetti, Marina;
(2014)
Turning Music into Sound: Vincenzo Galilei's Contributions to the History of Acoustics
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Article
Liu, Yaya;
(2014)
Research of Zhu Zaiyü’s Twelve-Tone Equal Temperament: Toward a Synthesis of Geometry, Arithmetic, Temperament and Physical acoustics
(/isis/citation/CBB582385656/)
Article
Sullivan, Edmund;
(2014)
Bill Carey and Passive Synthetic Aperture
(/isis/citation/CBB001201087/)
Book
James Q. Davies;
Ellen Lockhart;
(2017)
Sound Knowledge: Music and Science in London, 1789-1851
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Chapter
Weber, Heike;
(2009)
Taking your favorite sound along: Portable audio technologies for mobile listening
(/isis/citation/CBB001180423/)
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Thomas Patteson;
(2015)
Instruments for New Music: Sound, Technology, and Modernism
(/isis/citation/CBB077204349/)
Article
Kursell, Julia;
(2013)
Experiments on Tone Color in Music and Acoustics: Helmholtz, Schoenberg, and Klangfarbenmelodie
(/isis/citation/CBB001320389/)
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Pantalony, David;
(2009)
Altered Sensations: Rudolph Koenig's Acoustical Workshop in Nineteenth-Century Paris
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Pantalony, David;
(2005)
Rudolph Koenig's Workshop of Sound: Instruments, Theories, and the Debate over Combination Tones
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Hui, Alexandra;
Kursell, Julia;
Jackson, Myles W.;
(2013)
Music, Sound, and the Laboratory from 1750 to 1980
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Roland Wittje;
(2016)
The Age of Electroacoustics: Transforming Science and Sound
(/isis/citation/CBB301627147/)
Essay Review
Jackson, Myles W.;
(2001)
Music and Science During the Scientific Revolution
(/isis/citation/CBB000101049/)
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Cesare Beltrami;
John M. Chowning;
(2020)
Il suono da Giuseppe Tartini a John M. Chowning
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Gethmann, Daniel;
(2010)
Klangmaschinen zwischen Experiment und Medientechnik
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Stanley, Jerome;
(2002)
William Holder and His Position in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy and Music Theory
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