The science of harmonics in classical Greece
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Barker, Andrew, 1943-
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2007.
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xii, 481 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
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Table of contents only Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Beginnings, and the problem of measurement
- Empirical harmonics before Aristoxenus
- The early empiricists in their cultural and intellectual contexts
- Interlude on Aristotle's account of a science and its methods
- Aristoxenus
- the composition of the Elementa harmonica
- Aristoxenus
- concepts and methods in Elementa harmonica book 1
- Elementa harmonica books 2-3
- Elementa harmonica book 3 and its missing sequel
- Contexts and purposes of Aristoxenus' harmonics
- Pythagorean harmonics in the Fifth Century
- Developments in Pythagorean harmonics
- Plato
- Aristotle on the harmonic sciences
- Systematising mathematical harmonics
- Quantification under attack
- Postscript
- the later centuries.
