Article ID: CBB000771561

Incommensurability, Music, and Continuum: A Cognitive Approach (2007)

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Description Traces ideas of incommensurability and continuum back to the Pythagorean understanding of music rather than geometry.


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Authors & Contributors
Ferguson, Kitty
Creese, David
Ansari, Mohammad Sadegh
Zhmud, Leonid
Windle, Kevin
Ireland, Rosh
Journals
Apeiron: Journal for Ancient Philosophy and Science
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Rhetorica: A Journal of the History of Rhetoric
Circumscribere: International Journal for the History of Science
Bollettino di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche
Ancient Philosophy
Publishers
Cornell University Press
Cambridge University Press
Walker
Oxford University Press
Icon Books Ltd.
Hackett Publishing Company
Concepts
Mathematics
Music theory
Music
Philosophy
Harmony (music theory)
Pythagoreanism
People
Pythagoras
Plato
Zarlino, Gioseffo
Socrates
Ptolemy, Claudius
Plutarch
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
Early modern
16th century
Places
Greece
Baghdad (Iraq)
Rome (Italy)
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