The Logarithmic Ear: Pietro Mengoli's Mathematics of Music

DOI10.1080/00033790701303239MaRDI QIDQ3593594zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Benjamin Wardhaugh

Publication date 23 July 2007

Published in Annals of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790701303239

zbMATH Keywords

logarithmic scalemusic theory

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45)

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