Measure for Measure: A Musical History of Science
Language: English
Published by Touchstone, New York, 1994
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Lawrence Jones Books, Ashmore, QLD, AustraliaLawrence Jones Books
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351 pages, b/w photos, text-ills, bibliography, index. Paperback with some wear at corners. The author presents an account of the development of scientific thinking from Pythagoras's discovery of the musical scale to the 1940s. The story unfolds through the tales of instruments scientific and musical. Size: Trade Paperback.
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- Title
- Measure for Measure: A Musical History of Science
- Author
- Levenson, Thomas
- Publisher
- Touchstone, New York
- Publication year
- 1994
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Soft Cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0684804344
- ISBN 13
- 9780684804347
- Edition
- First Paperback.
- Seller catalogs
- Music, Stage and Film, Science, Technical & Mathematics
The story unfolds through the tales of instruments scientific and musical: the organ, the microscope, the still, the scales, Stradivari's miraculous violins and cellos, computers, and synthesizers.
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Lawrence Jones Books
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