| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 347 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Music and the making of ancient science -- The dream of Oresme -- Moving the immovable -- Hearing the irrational -- Kepler and the song of the Earth -- Descartes' 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Science -- History.
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Science. |
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History. |
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Music and science -- History.
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Music and science. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pesic, Peter. Music and the making of modern science. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2014] 9780262027274 (DLC) 2013041746 (OCoLC)863381100 |
| ISBN |
9780262324380 (electronic book) |
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0262324385 (electronic book) |
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9780262027274 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0262027275 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9781306980050 |
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1306980054 |
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