The science of harmonics in classical Greece

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Barker, Andrew, 1943-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
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Table of 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.