The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 155
reciated thatthis spheroidal form is in harmonic proportion and that its length, width anddepth are commensurate with the resistance of the air body in each direction,hence the necessity of harmonic proportions with any determined unit ofmeasurement. That this proportion should determine the nature… … (s tA«-t»ivoA. TIic Architect and Engineer 77 2:3:5 suggests, as was saitl in January, a consonant chord: because thepitch of tones is determined bytheir number of vibrations in any giventime, and tones that bear such simple ratios are harmonic up to seven;bevond seven we have dissonance or noise.…
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