Music and the making of modern science / Peter Pesic.
Publication details: Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2014.Description: viii, 347 pISBN:- 9780262027274
- 0262027275 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 509 Q4
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-333) and index.
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 sadness -- Euler: from sound to light -- Young's musical optics -- Electric sounds -- Hearing the field -- Helmholtz and the sirens -- Riemann and the sound of space -- Tuning the atoms -- Planck's cosmic harmonium -- Unheard harmonies.
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