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Music and the making of modern science
- Title
- Music and the making of modern science / Peter Pesic.
- Author
- Pesic, Peter
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
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Details
- Description
- viii, 347 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-333) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JME 14-758
- ISBN
- 9780262027274 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0262027275 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2013041746
- OCLC
- 863381100
- Author
- Pesic, Peter, author.
- Title
- Music and the making of modern science / Peter Pesic.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-333) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JME 14-758