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JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND ARTS. 
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Art. XXX—On the Musical Ratios, and our Pleasure in 
Harmonious Sounds; by Henry Warp Poote. Z 
Urinrry, in a liberal sense, may be assumed to be the goal of 
scientific et ct We should all rejoice if the ov- 
erles in heat should lead to material results in making avail- 
able those immense forces which are said to result from the 
ie of a pound of hydrogen or of coal. It would be grat- 
if the laws of light shall be so far understood, at we 
ootifined to the musical de ent, genet Pies nee ee vibri- 
tions and relations are eathiaek and only the simple and regu- 
lar are admitted. And here, e to say, in all times, the 
strange 
practice has been in advance of the science. 
Singers and players have used, and still are using, in 
which please themselves and their auditors, while the Setkntiotn 
nd have declared that 
y soun 
To illustrate this His 8 I take the last and most complete 
work on Sound* that I have seen. The excellence of other _ 
of this work, and the high merits of the author, make it 
hoteworthy { that after such minute experiment with metal and pes 
wooden rods, disks, sin, flames, oe the higher — oe 
should have Teeeived recline attentio 
* Sound, A utior i 
Britain, by J 
