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Language: en
Pages: 308
Pages: 308
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 250
Pages: 250
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-10-13 - Publisher: Princeton University Press
A stimulating intellectual history of Ptolemy's philosophy and his conception of a world in which mathematics reigns supreme The Greco-Roman mathematician Claud
Language: en
Pages: 427
Pages: 427
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06-10 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Traces the history of the monochord from its earliest appearance to Claudius Ptolemy (mid-second century AD).
Language: en
Pages: 231
Pages: 231
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-07-17 - Publisher: BRILL
Ptolemy's comprehensive treatises on astronomy and geography were influential for nearly two millennia. Equally influential was his treatise on harmonics, the a
Language: en
Pages: 494
Pages: 494
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-09-13 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
The ancient science of harmonics investigates the arrangements of pitched sounds which form the basis of musical melody, and the principles which govern them. I