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Music and the making of modern science

Peter Pesic

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Music and the origins of ancient science
The dream of Oresme
Moving the immovable
Hearing the irrational
Kepler and the song of the Earth
Descartes's musical apprenticeship
Mersenne's universal harmony
Newton and the mystery of the major sixth
Euler: the mathematics of musical sadness
Euler: from sound to light
Young's musical optics
Electric sounds
Hearing the field
Helmholtz and the sirens
Riemann and the sound of space
Tuning the atoms
Planck's cosmic harmonium
Unheard harmonies.

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Music and the making of modern science by Peter Pesic. ISBN 9780262027274. Published by The MIT Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

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