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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- 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 - References
- Sources and Illustration Credits
- Acknowledgments
- Index
Title Pages
Title Pages
- Source:
- Music and the Making of Modern Science
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- 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 - References
- Sources and Illustration Credits
- Acknowledgments
- Index
