The harmony of the spheres in English musical mathematics, 1650-1750
The seventeenth century was the period when some attempted to replace the 'sounding number' with the 'sounding body', in Paolo Gozza's apt formulation: to use mechanics and experiment to replace numerology in accounting for the role of small whole numbers and their ratios in...
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Routledge
2017
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