Music and the making of modern science / Peter Pesic.
Music and the making of modern science / Peter Pesic.
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
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GQ 2016/27
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English
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Physical content
viii, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Music and the making of ancient science -- The dream of Oresme -- Moving the immovable -- Hearing the irrational -- Kepler and the song of the Earth -- Descartes' musical apprenticeship -- Mersenne's universal harmony -- Newton and the mystery of the major sixth -- Euler: the mathematics of musical...
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Publisher
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
Place of Publication
Massachusetts
Date Published
[2014]
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Summary
"In the natural science of ancient Greece, music formed the meeting place between numbers and perception; for the next two millennia, Pesic tells us in Music and the Making of Modern Science, "liberal education" connected music with arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy within a fourfold study, the quadrivium. Peter Pesic argues provocatively that mu...
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Music and the making of modern science / Peter Pesic.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-333) and index.
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GQ 2016/27
Record Identifier
74VKRgy43jGO
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ISBN
0262027275 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780262027274 (hardcover : alk. paper)
DDC
509
MMS ID
991023190929702626
