HarmonicsBrill, 2000 - 192 էջ Ptolemy's comprehensive treatises on astronomy and geography were influential for nearly two millennia. Equally influential was his treatise on harmonics, the ancient science which combined and brought to completion the study of philosophy and science. This volume offers a comprehensive English translation and commentary of Ptolemy's Harmonics. The treatise begins with Ptolemy's study of pitches and intervals, for which he extracts both an idealized musical scale and a new acoustical tool. After discussing modulation, he expands his horizons by applying musical intervals to the human soul and celestial bodies, ultimately describing a cosmic harmony. The English translation faithfully reproduces Ptolemy's style and includes all the charts surviving in the manuscript tradition. The commentary offers a full exegesis of the text, loci paralleli, and citations of modern scholarly sources. |
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... Milton's " how gird the sphere / With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er , cycle and epicycle , / orb in orb " ( P.L. 8.82-84 [ and cf. 3.575 ] ) ; see A. W. Verity , ed . , Milton ; Paradise Lost ( Cambridge 1910 ) 551 and 688-90 ...
... Milton's " how gird the sphere / With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er , cycle and epicycle , / orb in orb " ( P.L. 8.82-84 [ and cf. 3.575 ] ) ; see A. W. Verity , ed . , Milton ; Paradise Lost ( Cambridge 1910 ) 551 and 688-90 ...
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... Milton : Paradise Lost . Cambridge 1910 . Vetter , Walther . " Die antike Musik in der Beleuchtung durch Aristoteles . " Archiv für Musikwissenschaft ( 1936 ) 1–41 . " Triganon . " RE XIII.2 ( 1939 ) 142 . Vogel , Martin . Die ...
... Milton : Paradise Lost . Cambridge 1910 . Vetter , Walther . " Die antike Musik in der Beleuchtung durch Aristoteles . " Archiv für Musikwissenschaft ( 1936 ) 1–41 . " Triganon . " RE XIII.2 ( 1939 ) 142 . Vogel , Martin . Die ...
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