The Net Advance of Physics:
History and Philosophy: Ernst Chladni

• Ernst Chladni Highly recommended. [Monoskop.org]
• Ernst Florenz Friedrich Chladni by Silke Merchel [Meteoroids.de]
• Ernst Chladni: physicist, musician and musical instrument maker by Torben Rees [Whipple Museum of the History of Science]
• Meteor Man by Matt Salusbury [Fortean Times No. 265, (2010 July)]
• Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni (1756-1827) and the origins of modern meteorite research by Ursula B. Marvin [Meteoritics & Planetary Science 31, 545 (1996)]
• Sketches in the History of Meteoritics 1: The Birth of Science by Derek W. Sears [Meteoritics 10, 215 (1975)]
• The Scientific Study of Meteors in the 19th Century by Mary F. Romig [Rand Corporation Paper 3108, (1965/04)] PDF

• WORKS:
  • Traité d'acoustique by Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni [Paris: Courcier, 1809]
  • Account of a New Musical Instrument, Called a Clavo-Cylinder by M[onsieur] Chladni [Belfast Monthly 3, 381 (1809 November 30)]
  • Neue Beyträge zur Akustik by Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni [Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1817]
  • Ueber Feuer-Meteore, und über die mit denselben herabgefallenen Massen by Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni [Vienna: Heubner, 1819]

• CHLADNI PLATES:
  • Instruments for Natural Philosophy: Chladni Plates by Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr. [Modern photographs of antique instruments.]
  • Standing Waves: Chladni Plates Harvard lecture demo with excellent video.
  • Chladni Patterns [UCLA Lecture Demonstration Manual]
  • Chladni Plates [Smithsonian Institution]
  • History of Chladni's Law by Derek Kverno and Jim Nolen [Davidson College]
  • Modal Analysis Cello [7 second video by Luthier X]

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