{"product_id":"music-and-the-making-of-modern-science-isbn-9780262543903","title":"Music and the Making of Modern Science","description":"\u003cb\u003eA wide-ranging exploration of how music has influenced science through the ages, from fifteenth-century cosmology to twentieth-century string theory.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the natural science of ancient Greece, music formed the meeting place between numbers and perception; for the next two millennia, Pesic tells us in Music and the Making of Modern Science, “liberal education” connected music with arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy within a fourfold study, the quadrivium. Peter Pesic argues provocatively that music has had a formative effect on the development of modern science—that music has been not just a charming accompaniment to thought but a conceptual force in its own right. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003ePesic explores a series of episodes in which music influenced science, moments in which prior developments in music arguably affected subsequent aspects of natural science. He describes encounters between harmony and fifteenth-century cosmological controversies, between musical initiatives and irrational numbers, between vibrating bodies and the emergent electromagnetism. He offers lively accounts of how Newton applied the musical scale to define the colors in the spectrum; how Euler and others applied musical ideas to develop the wave theory of light; and how a harmonium prepared Max Planck to find a quantum theory that reengaged the mathematics of vibration. Taken together, these cases document the peculiar power of music—its autonomous force as a stream of experience, capable of stimulating insights different from those mediated by the verbal and the visual. An innovative e-book edition available for iOS devices will allow sound examples to be played by a touch and shows the score in a moving line. Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e1 Music and the Origins of Ancient Science 9\u003cbr\u003e2 The Dream of Oresme 21\u003cbr\u003e3 Moving the Immovable 35\u003cbr\u003e4 Hearing the Irrational 55\u003cbr\u003e5 Kepler and the Song of the Earth 73\u003cbr\u003e6 Descartes's Musical Apprenticeship 89\u003cbr\u003e7 Mersenne's Universal Harmony 103\u003cbr\u003e8 Newton and the Mystery of the Major Sixth 121\u003cbr\u003e9 Euler: The Mathematics of Musical Sadness 133\u003cbr\u003e10 Euler: From Sound to Light 151\u003cbr\u003e11 Young's Musical Optics 161\u003cbr\u003e12 Electric Sounds 181\u003cbr\u003e13 Hearing the Field 195\u003cbr\u003e14 Helmholtz and the Sirens 217\u003cbr\u003e15 Riemann and the Sound of Space 231\u003cbr\u003e16 Turning the Atoms 245\u003cbr\u003e17 Planck's Cosmic Harmonium 255\u003cbr\u003e18 Unheard Harmonies 271\u003cbr\u003eNotes 285\u003cbr\u003eReferences 311\u003cbr\u003eSources and Illustration Credits 335\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments 337\u003cbr\u003eIndex 339\u003cb\u003ePeter Pesic\u003c\/b\u003e, writer, pianist, and scholar, is Director of the Science Institute and Musician-in-Residence at St. John's College, Santa Fe. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAbel's Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability; Seeing Double: Shared Identities in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSky in a Bottle\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eMusic and the Making of Modern Science,\u003c\/i\u003e all published by the MIT Press.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304881082597,"sku":"NP9780262543903","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262543903.jpg?v=1767733195","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/music-and-the-making-of-modern-science-isbn-9780262543903","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}