Science, Optics and Music in Medieval and Early Modern Thought

Crombie, A.C.; A.C. Crombie

ISBN 10: 0907628796 / ISBN 13: 9780907628798

Published by The Hambledon Press, London & Ronceverte,WV, 1990

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474 pp. Flawless book and dj.

Seller Inventory # 1iiEg0043

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Science, Optics and Music in Medieval and Early Modern Thought
• Publisher: The Hambledon Press, London & Ronceverte,WV
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0907628796
• ISBN 13: 9780907628798
• Binding: Hardbound Clothbinding
• Condition: Like New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Like New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Music, Music History & Studies, Musicology, etc.
  • Science, Life Sciences, Ecology, Environmental Sc.
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research

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Synopsis

A.C. Crombie is one of the best known writers on the history of Science. Science, Optics and Music in Medieval and Early Modern Thought brings together a coherent body of essays that complement his books and are of independent value. A.C. Crombie traces general themes in the development of Science: the Aristotelian inheritance and the importance of the search for logical explanation in the middle ages; the ambitions and limitations of experiment and quantification; changing attitudes to scientific progress; the relations between Science and the Arts, and between Mathematics, Music and Medical Science; and the study of the senses. In particular he shows how the mechanistic hypothesis stimulated the experimental and philosophical study of vision.

About the Author

Author deceased.