The science of harmonics in classical Greece [electronic resource] / Andrew Barker.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.Description: xii, 481 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 781.2/30938 22
LOC classification:
  • ML3805 .B27 2007eb
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Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 450-460) and index.

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.

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