Myth, science, and the power of music in the early decades of the Royal Society
While the Royal Society’s experimental and mathematical investigations of the 1660-90s opened up new areas of acoustical knowledge, these did not simply overturn older traditions of musical wisdom. Fellows continued to draw on stories of music’s power contained in Classical mythology and Ancient his...
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2015
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