Scientific Method in Ptolemy's Harmonics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780521553728
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; History of science; Theory of music & musicology; BCE to c 500 CE; Music theory; History; To 500; Philosophy; Science; Research & Methodology; Science/Mathematics; Ancient Greece; Music/Songbooks; Ancient - Rome; Music / General; Ptolemy,--2nd cent.--Harmonics; Harmonics; History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical; 2nd cent; 2nd cent; Ptolemy,; Science, Ancient
First sentence: Ptolemy's reputation as one of the outstanding scientists of the ancient world rests mainly on his epoch-making treatise in astronomy, the Mathematike Syntaxis (usually known as the Almagest).