Music and the Making of Modern Science

Name: Music and the Making of Modern Science
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ISBN: 9780262027274

ISBN-10: 0262027275

ISBN-13: 9780262027274

Edition: 2014

Authors: Peter Pesic

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In the natural science of ancient Greece, music formed the meeting place betweennumbers and perception; for the next two millennia, Pesic tells us in Music and the Makingof Modern Science, "liberal education" connected music with arithmetic,geometry, and astronomy within a fourfold study, the quadrivium. Peter Pesic argues provocativelythat music has had a formative effect on the development of modern science -- that music has beennot 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 inwhich prior developments in music arguably affected subsequent aspects of natural science.…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 7/3/2014
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 360
Size: 8.31" wide x 9.38" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.804
Language: English

Peter Pesic is Tutor and Musician-in-Residence at St. John's College, Santa Fe. He is the author of Labyrinth: A Search for the Hidden Meaning of Science; Seeing Double: Shared Identities in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature; Abel's Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability; and Sky in a Bottle, all published by the MIT Press.