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Music and the Making of Modern Science

Hardcover • 2014 • English

Music and the Making of Modern Science

By Peter Pesic

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In the natural science of ancient Greece, music formed the meeting place between numbers and perception; for the next two millennia, Pesic tells us in Music and the Making of Modern Science, "liberal education" connected music with arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy within a fourfold study, the quadrivium. Peter Pesic argues provocatively that music has had a formative effect on the development of modern science -- that music has been not just a charming accompaniment to thought but a conceptu...Show more

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ISBN

9780262027274

Publisher

MIT Press Ltd

Published year

2014

Language

English

Original title

Music and the Making of Modern Science

Format

Hardcover

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