Music and the making of modern science / Peter Pesic.
Pubblicazione:
Cambridge (Mass.) : The MIT press, c2014.
Descrizione fisica:
VIII, 347 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Introduction. 1. Music and the origins of ancient science 2. The dream of Oresme 3. Moving the immovable 4. Hearing the irrational 5. Kepler and the song of the Earth 6. Descartes's musical apprenticeship 7. Mersenne's universal harmony 8. Newton and the mystery of the major sixth 9. Euler: the mathematics of musical sadness 10. Euler: from sound to light 11. Young's musical optics 12. Electric sounds 13. Hearing the field 14. Helmholtz and the sirens 15. Riemann and the sound of space 16. Tuning the atoms 17. Planck's cosmic harmonium 18. Unheard harmonies. Notes. References. Sources and illustration. Credits. Acknowledgments. Index
