Library › Nemesius of Emesa › On the Nature of Man
On the Nature of Man
Nemesius of Emesa, tr. Wither, 1636
I. Of the Hearing; of the object of that sense; of the instruments thereof; and of such…
Hitherto of the tast. The sense of Hearing is employed about voices and sounds; and in them it discernes the shrilnesse, the basenesse, the softnesse, the harshnesse, and the loudnesse.
The instruments thereof are a soft kind of sinews which proceed from the braine; the forme of the eares; and chiefly that part of them which is grisly: for the grisles are fitted for sounds and noises.
Onely Man and the Ape, are thought to have eares unmoveable, and all other living-creatures to have moveable eares.