Number to sound : the musical way to the scientific revolution
Paolo Gozza · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 2000
Illustrations. Notes on Contributors. Preface & Acknowledgements. Introduction P. Gozza. Tradition. 1. Sounding Numbers. The Harmony of the Spheres D.P. Walker. 'Desiderio da Pavia' and Renaissance Musical Theory P. Gozza. 2. Music & Spirit. Marsilio Ficino: The Soul and the Body of Counterpoint B. Boccadoro. Music in Francis Bacon's Natural Philosophy P.M. Gouk. Transition. 3. Geometry vs. Arithmetic. A Renaissance Mathematics: the Music of Descartes P. Gozza. The Structure of Harmony in Johannes Kepler's Harmonice mundi (1619) M. Dickreiter. 4. The Uses of Experience. Was Galileo's Father and Experimental Scientist? C.V. Palisca. The Expressive Value of Intervals and the Problem of the Fourth D.P. Walker. Reassessment. 5. Sound, Matter & Motion. Galileo Galilei H.F. Cohen. Isaac Beeckman H.F. Cohen. 6. Mechanics & Affections. Marin Mersenne: Mechanics, Music and Harmony P. Dear. Moving the Affections Through Music: Pre-Cartesian Psycho-Physiological Theories C.V. Palisca. Index.