Popular Audiology in the second half of the nineteenth century. The pedagogue Ferdinando Dobelli and the explanation of how sound and hearing work

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Andrea Cozza https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9156-9312

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sound, hearing, audiology, scientific dissemination, ear

Abstract

In the 1860s, a series of short popular issues dedicated to the most disparate aspects of knowledge was published, with particular attention to topics of a technical-scientific and medical culture. Among the described themes there is also the illustration of the functioning of sound and hearing by the pedagogue Ferdinando Dobelli. In his characterization, rendered simply but accurately, Dobelli also uses numerous examples, parallels and experiments that support what has been said in order to make the explanation more effective.

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