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Music and the making of modern science /
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| Format: | Printed Book |
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Cambridge:
The MIT Press,
2014.
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| Online Access: | https://books.google.co.in/books?id=HfPvAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=9780262027274&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj2sNOyvpjjAhXPdCsKHYGNCicQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=9780262027274&f=false |
Table of 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.