Chaucer's Theory of Sound

Author / Editor
Isenor, Neil,and Ken Woolner.

Title
Chaucer's Theory of Sound

Published
Physics Today 3 (1980): 114-16.

Description
HF 782-834 displays an uncanny foreknowlege of details of the modern theory of sound and wave motion, especially in lines 809-13, where, in a great creative leap of scientific imagination, the motion of water waves is transferred to the propagation of sound waves.

Contributor
Woolner, Ken.

Chaucer Subjects
House of Fame.