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Music and the stars : mathematics in medieval Ireland
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Music and the stars : mathematics in medieval Ireland

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Includes the greatly expanded papers presented at the conference 'Music and the stars : mathematics in medieval Ireland' hosted by the National Library of Ireland on 17-18 July, partner conference to ESOF 2012.

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Saints, scholars and science in early medieval Ireland / Dáibhí Ó Cróinín
Boethius in early Ireland : five centuries of study in the sciences / Pádraig P. Ó Néill
Seventh-century Ireland : the cradle of medieval science? / Immo Warntjes
From observation to scientific speculation in seventh-century Ireland / Marina Smyth
Cummian{u2019}s letter : science and heresy in seventh-century Ireland / Maura Walsh
Music and the stars in early Irish composition / David Howlett
When art was informed by mathematics / Robert D. Stevick
Music and the stars in Cashel, Bolton Library, MS I / Charles Burnett
The heavens, earth and imagined islands : an introduction to the medieval medical and astronomical resources of the Royal Irish Academy Library / Siobhán Fitzpatrick
Clocks and guns : observations on medieval science and technology / Howard Clarke
Music and the stars : the model for the present! / Anthony Harvey.

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