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Reference numberRBO/3/82
Alternative reference numberRBO.3.301
LevelItem
Title'A Brief Account of An Experiment concerning Deafnesse' brought in by Dr William Holder
Date1668
DescriptionDetails about the middle ear - deaf patient could hear when a drum was beaten but was deaf when the drum stopped - belief that a person could hear if the tympanum was tense
This paper sparked an intense controversy with John Wallis.
Read to the Royal Society on 23 April 1668, Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 3, no 35, p 665
LanguageEnglish
Extent3 sides
FormatManuscript
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1668.0014
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA7044Holder; William (1616 - 1698); clergyman and natural philosopher1616 - 1698
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