Music and the making of modern science /
Pesic, Peter,author.
A wide-ranging exploration of how music has influenced science through the ages, from fifteenth-century cosmology to twentieth-century string theory.
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Contents; Introduction; 1 Music and the Origins of Ancient Science; 2 The Dream of Oresme; 3 Moving the Immovable; 4 Hearing the Irrational; 5 Kepler and the Song of the Earth; 6 Descartes's Musical Apprenticeship; 7 Mersenne's Universal Harmony; 8 Newton and the Mystery of the Major Sixth; 9 Euler: The Mathematics of Musical Sadness; 10 Euler: From Sound to Light; 11 Young's Musical Optics; 12 Electric Sounds; 13 Hearing the Field; 14 Helmholtz and the Sirens; 15 Riemann and the Sound of Space; 16 Tuning the Atoms; 17 Planck's Cosmic Harmonium; 18 Unheard Harmonies; Notes; References
Sources and Illustration CreditsAcknowledgments; Index
Specialized.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A wide-ranging exploration of how music has influenced science through the ages, from fifteenth-century cosmology to twentieth-century string theory.
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
Science
Music and science
PHYSICAL SCIENCES/General
ARTS/Music & Sound Studies
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science