Otocousticon
Date
30 November 1675
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p279
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 313mm
width (page): 195mm
width (page): 195mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Figure of an otocousticon (a trumpet for hearing) by Thomas Mace (1612/13-c. 1709). Mace was at Trinity College, Cambridge, and an accomplished lutanist (despite being deaf) and author of Music's Monument (1676). The instrument is described by Isaac Newton in a letter dated 30 November 1675 to Henry Oldenburg.
Copied from EL/N1/49/001. Copied at LBC/7/422.
Copied from EL/N1/49/001. Copied at LBC/7/422.
Related fellows
Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727, British) , Natural philosopher
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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