Some Musico-Mathematical Curiosities
A. L. Leigh Silver · The Mathematical Gazette · 1964
“It is proper, in philosophy, to consider the similar, even in things far distant from each Other”—ARISTOTLE. 3-2 About 75 B.C., Cicero the orator, stumbled upon an ancient monument. The lettering was illegible, but ‘on clearing away the brambles and thorns’ he discovered a curious design—a sphere with circumscribed cylinder.