Musical logarithms in the seventeenth century: Descartes, Mercator, Newton
This paper describes three previously little-studied sources from the 17th century, which reveal early uses of logarithms in the mathematical study of music. It describes the problem, which had existed since antiquity, of providing quantitative measures for the relationships between musical interval...
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2008
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