Music, science, and natural magic in seventeenth-century England
By: Penelope Gouk.
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New Haven [Conn.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 308
Subjects: Music -- England -- 17th century -- Philosophy and aesthetics; Music -- England -- 17th century -- Acoustics and physics; Music and science; Music and magic
Description: "The role of natural magic in the rise of seventeenth-century experimental science has been the subject of lively controversy for several decades. Now Penelope Gouk introduces a new element into the debate: how music mediated between these two domains. Arguing that changing musical practice in sixteenth-century Europe affected seventeenth-century English thought on science and magic, she maps the various relationships among these apparently separate disciplines."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-293) and index.
Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Warburg Institute, University of London, 1982) originally with title: Music in the natural philosophy of the early Royal Society.