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  • READING MATHEMATICS IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
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    READING MATHEMATICS IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
    PHILIP BEELEY / ‎YELDA NASIFOGLU / ‎BENJAMIN WARDHAUGH
    Libraries and archives contain many thousands of early modern mathematical books, of which almost equally many bear readers’ marks, ranging from deliberate annotations and accidental blots to corrections and underlinings. Such evidence provides us with the material and intellectual tools for exploring the nature of mathematical reading and the ways in which mathematics was diss...

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  • MUSIC, EXPERIMENT AND MATHEMATICS IN ENGLAND, 1653-1705
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    MUSIC, EXPERIMENT AND MATHEMATICS IN ENGLAND, 1653-1705
    BENJAMIN WARDHAUGH
    How, in 1705, was Thomas Salmon, a parson from Bedfordshire, able to persuade the Royal Society that a musical performance could constitute a scientific experiment? Or that the judgement of a musical audience could provide evidence for a mathematically precise theory of musical tuning? This book presents answers to these questions. It constitutes a general history of quantitati...

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  • THOMAS SALMON: WRITINGS ON MUSIC
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    THOMAS SALMON: WRITINGS ON MUSIC
    BENJAMIN WARDHAUGH
    This is the second volume in a two-part set on the writings of Thomas Salmon. Salmon (1647-1706) is remembered today for the fury with which Matthew Locke greeted his first foray into musical writing, the Essay to the Advancement of Musick (1672), and the near-farcical level to which the subsequent pamphlet dispute quickly descended. Salmon proposed a radical reform of musical ...

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  • JOHN WALLIS: WRITINGS ON MUSIC
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    JOHN WALLIS: WRITINGS ON MUSIC
    BENJAMIN WARDHAUGH
    John Wallis (1616-1703), was one of the foremost British mathematicians of the seventeenth century, and is also remembered for his important writings on grammar and logic. An interest in music theory led him to produce translations into Latin of three ancient Greek texts - those of Ptolemy, Porphyry and Bryennius - and involved him in discussions with Henry Oldenburg, the Secre...

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  • JOHN BIRCHENSHA: WRITINGS ON MUSIC
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    JOHN BIRCHENSHA: WRITINGS ON MUSIC
    BENJAMIN WARDHAUGH
    John Birchensha (c.1605-?1681) is chiefly remembered for the impression that his theories about music made on the mathematicians, natural philosophers and virtuosi of the Royal Society in the 1660s and 1670s, and for inventing a system that he claimed would enable even those without practical experience of music to learn to compose in a short time by means of 'a few easy, certa...

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