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A Musical History of Science
Thomas Levenson
ISBN: 9780684804347
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Simon & Schuster
Edition: New edition
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An investigation of the links between science and art exploring how we can understand and experience the natural world through instruments both scientific and musical. By tracing the development of the organ, the microscope, violins, cellos and computers, the book reveals why science itself is art.
In Measure for Measure, Thomas Levenson offers a compelling account of how scientific thinking development from the day 2,500 years ago when Pythagoras discovered the musical scale to the present day. The story unfolds through the tales of instruments scientific and musical: the organ, the microscope, the still, the scales, Stradivari's miraculous violins and cellos, computers, and synthesizers. What emerges is a unique portrait of science itself as an instrument, our single most powerful way of understanding the world. Yet perhaps the most important invention of modern science has been the power to countenance its own limitations, to find the point beyond which science can explain no more, to rediscover that science, like music, is an art.
| ISBN | 0684804344 | | Pages | 352 | | ISBN13 | 9780684804347
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Simon & Schuster | | Weight (grammes) | 518 | | Imprint | Touchstone | | Published in | New York, NY | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 229 | | Publication date | 19 Dec 1995 | | Width (mm) | 152 | | Library of Congress | 94016282 | | Spine width (mm) | 19 | | DEWEY | 509 | | Academic level | General, Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly | | DEWEY edition | DC20 | |
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