Number to sound : the musical way to the scientific revolution /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Kluwer Academic Publishers,
c2000.
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| Series: | University of Western Ontario series in philosophy of science ;
v. 64. |
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| Online Access: | Publisher description Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Paolo Gozza
- 1. Sounding Numbers
- The Harmony of the Spheres / Daniel P. Walker
- "Desiderio da Pavia" and Renaissance Musical Theory / Paolo Gozza
- 2. Music & Spirit
- Marsilio Ficino: The Soul and the Body of Counterpoint / Brenno Boccadoro
- Music in Francis Bacon's Natural Philosophy / Penelope M. Gouk
- 3. Geometry vs Arithmetic
- A Renaissance Mathematics: the Music of Descartes / Paolo Gozza
- The Structure of Harmony in Johannes Kepler's Harmonice mundi (1619) / Michael Dickreiter
- 4. The Uses of Experience
- Was Galileo's Father an Experimental Scientist? / Claude V. Palisca
- The Expressive Value of Intervals and the Problem of the Fourth / Daniel P. Walker
- 5. Sound, Matter & Motion
- Galileo Galilei / H. Floris Cohen
- Isaac Beeckman / H. Floris Cohen
- 6. Mechanics & Affections
- Marin Mersenne: Mechanics, Music and Harmony / Peter Dear.
- Moving the Affections Through Music: Pre-Cartesian Psycho-Physiological Theories / Claude Victor Palisca.