John Wallis : writings on music /

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Author / Creator:Wallis, John, 1616-1703.
Uniform title:Prose works. Selections
Imprint:Farnham, Surrey ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2014]
Description:239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Music theory in Britain, 1500-1700 : critical editions
Music theory in Britain, 1500-1700.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10149868
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Other authors / contributors:Cram, David, editor of compilation.
Wardhaugh, Benjamin, 1979-, editor of compilation.
ISBN:9780754668701 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0754668703 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references ( pages 231-235) and index.
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Summary: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 Secretary of the Royal Society, Thomas Salmon and other individuals as his ideas developed. The texts presented in this volume cover the relationship of ancient and modern tuning theory, the building of organs, the phenomena of resonance, and other musical topics.
Physical Description:239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references ( pages 231-235) and index.
ISBN:9780754668701
0754668703