Music and the Making of Modern Science

 Music and the Making of Modern Science
By:Peter Pesic 

 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 conceptual force in its own right.  Pesic explores a series of episodes in which music influenced science, moments in… 
Year: 2014
Language: english
Pages: 360
ISBN 10: 0262027275
ISBN 13: 9780262027274
File: PDF, 7.21 MB

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