externally activated spring-mass system round window
oval window
ossicular chain
ear drum
sound signal
cochlear duct
perilymph

sound signal

eardrum

ossicular chain

oval window

cochlear duct

perilymph

round window

 

Schematic drawing of the ear as an externally activated spring-mass system

Schematic drawing of the ear as an externally activated spring-mass system

 

by Willem Christiaan Heerens

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“This revised study of the entire set of mechanisms and functions, actually a new and exciting paradigm, enables us to explain most if not all of the, thus far unsolved, major mysteries in the functioning of the auditory sense.”