Harmonious Triads
Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany
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- Paperback
408 pages
- Release Date
29 August 2008
Summary
Historically, music was long classified as both art and science. Aspects of music-from the mathematics of tuning to the music of the celestial spheres-were primarily studied as science until the seventeenth century. In the nineteenth century, although scientists were less interested in the music of the spheres than the natural philosophers of earlier centuries, they remained committed to understanding the world of performing musicians and their instruments. In Harmonious Triads, Myles Jackson…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262600750 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262600757 |
| Author: | Myles W. Jackson |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 408 |
| Release Date: | 29 August 2008 |
| Weight: | 658g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology |
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In this ambitious, demanding, and fascinating book, Myles Jackson examines the intersections of three ostensibly independent communities and shows the several ways in which they helped shape each other.
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Myles W. Jackson
Myles W. Jackson is Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor of the History of Science, NYU-Gallatin;Professor of History, Department of History, NYU-FAS; Director of Science and Society, NYU-CAS; Professor of the Division of Medical Ethics, NYU-Langone School of Medicine; and Faculty Affiliate of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy at the New York University School of Law. He is the author of Spectrum of Belief- Joseph von Fraunhofer and the Craft of Precision Optics and Harmonious Triads- Physicists, Musicians, and Instrument Makers in Nineteenth-Century Germany, both published by the MIT Press.
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