Music and the making of modern science
Peter Pesic
Bok · Engelsk · 2014
| Omfang | viii, 347 sider : : illustrasjoner ;
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| Opplysninger | 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.
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| ISBN | 0262027275. - 9780262027274
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