Music, Experiment and Mathematics in England, 1653-1705 - Hardcover

Wardhaugh, Benjamin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0754665267 ISBN 13: 9780754665267

Verlag: Routledge, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

This book constitutes an overarching history of quantitative music theory in the seventeenth century, focusing namely on the applications of mathematical and mechanical methods of understanding to music produced in England between 1653 and 1705. It begins with the responses to Descartes’s 1650 Compendium musicæ, and ends with the Philosophical Transactions’ account of the appearance of Thomas Salmon at the Royal Society in 1705. The book’s conclusions have wide significance for early modern theories of knowledge and sensation and provides a fascinating side light onto the world of the scientific revolution.

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Dr Benjamin Wardhaugh, is a post-doctoral research fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, where he studies the social history of early modern mathematics. He is also working on three forthcoming volumes in the Ashgate series Music Theory in Britain, 1500-1700, and a textbook, How to Read Historical Mathematics.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0754665267
• ISBN 13: 9780754665267
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 224
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