Acoustics: Historical and Philosophical Development
W. J. Duffin · Physics Bulletin · 1974
R Bruce Lindsay (ed) Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania: Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross (distributed by J Wiley) 1973 pp xiii + 465 price £13.40 I approached with considerable prejudice this collection of 39 classic papers. Why, I asked myself, should I recommend anybody to buy, particularly at this price, a set of reproductions of original papers when those with sufficient interest and energy could find the whole lot themselves in any decent library.