As I recall, Peter Felgett gave a significant lecture on the subject at the IEE in London in March 1977. By that stage the term "Ambisonics" had been used by Felgett and Gerzon in several published papers in Wireless World and similar periodicals for about two years previous to that. I think Felgett remarked - off-hand - that they had settled on that terminology after some debate and apologised for mixing Greek and Latin roots; but Felgett pointed out that a precedent had been set by the term "television", which in a grammatically pure world would be called either "Procul-vision" or "tele-opticon".
Gerald WW On 23 Jun 2013, at 12:32, Dave Malham wrote: > Hi guys, > A year or two ago I seem to remember we had a discussion about the > origins of the term "Ambisonics" and when it was first used. Assuming I am > recalling correctly, can anyone remind me when that was as I'm damned if I > can come up with a combination of words that brings it up in a search... > > Dave > > -- > As of 1st October 2012, I have retired from the University, so this > disclaimer is redundant.... > > > These are my own views and may or may not be shared by my employer > > Dave Malham > Ex-Music Research Centre > Department of Music > The University of York > Heslington > York YO10 5DD > UK > > 'Ambisonics - Component Imaging for Audio' > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20130623/db7161e6/attachment.html> > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
