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John Wallis

Writings on Music
TaschenbuchKartoniert, Paperback
254 Seiten
Englisch
Routledgeerschienen am30.09.2020
John Wallis (1616-1703), was one of the foremost British mathematicians of the seventeenth century, and is also remembered for his important writings on grammar and logic. An interest in music theory led him to produce translations into Latin of three ancient Greek texts - those of Ptolemy, Porphyry and Bryennius - and involved him in discussions wmehr
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KlappentextJohn Wallis (1616-1703), was one of the foremost British mathematicians of the seventeenth century, and is also remembered for his important writings on grammar and logic. An interest in music theory led him to produce translations into Latin of three ancient Greek texts - those of Ptolemy, Porphyry and Bryennius - and involved him in discussions w
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-367-66928-7
ProduktartTaschenbuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
FormatTrade Paperback (USA)
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2020
Erscheinungsdatum30.09.2020
Seiten254 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 156 mm, Höhe 234 mm, Dicke 13 mm
Gewicht358 g
Artikel-Nr.56503346
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GenreGeschichte/Politik

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Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents: Introduction; Letters to Henry Oldenburg, May 1664; Letters to Henry Oldenburg, March 1677; ´The harmonics of the ancients compared with today´s´: appendix to Ptolemy´s Harmonics, 1682; Notice of Wallis´s edition of Ptolemy´s Harmonics in the Philosophical Transactions, January 1683; ´A question in musick´, Philosophical Transactions March 1698; A letter to Samuel Pepys, June 1698; Letters to Andrew Fletcher, August 1698; Select Bibliography; Index.mehr

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David Cram is an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. His wide-ranging publications on the history of ideas about language in the seventeenth century include a co-edited edition of the works of George Dalgarno. Benjamin Wardhaugh is a Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and the author of a number of works on the history of mathematics and its applications. He has edited the writings of Thomas Salmon and co-edited those of John Birchensha for this Ashgate series.