In 1860 while Helmholtz was planning the third volume of his physiological optics he wrote to F. C. Donders (1818–1889), a physiologist and ophthalmologist at the University of Utrecht: “I have set myself to compiling my acoustical works. It should become a small book, as popular as possible so that it is accessible to music lovers, since I also intend to be able to put down in writing the physical-physiological foundations of harmony.” (Leo Koenigsberger, Hermann von Helmholtz, Braunschweig, 1902, vol. 1, 360. “Ich habe mich daran gemacht, meine akustischen Arbeiten zusammenzuschreiben; es soll daraus ein kleines Buch von möglichst populärer Haltung werden, um es auch den Musikliebhabern zugänglich zu erhalten, weil ich meine, auch die physikalisch-physiologische Begründung der Harmonielehre darin niederlegen zu können.”).
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Hiebert, E. (2014). Sensations of Tone as the Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music. In Archimedes (Vol. 39, pp. 47–57). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06602-8_7
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