Summary
A wide-ranging exploration of how music has influenced science through the ages, from fifteenth-century cosmology to twentieth-century string theory.
In the natural science of ancient Greece, music formed the meeting place between numbers and perception. For the next two millennia, 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 deve…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262543903 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262543907 |
| Author: | Peter Pesic |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 360 |
| Release Date: | 25 October 2022 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 229mm |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Peter Pesic
Peter Pesic is a writer, pianist, and scholar. He is the Director of the Science Institute and Musician-in-Residence at St. John’s College, Santa Fe.
He is the author of:
- Abel’s Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability
- Seeing Double: Shared Identities in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature
- Sky in a Bottle
- Music and the Making of Modern Science
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