The Science of Harmonics in Classical Greece
- Author: Barker, Andrew
Book
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Contents
- Part I . Preliminaries: Introduction;
- 1. Beginnings, and the problem of measurement;
- Part II . Empirical Harmonics:
- 2. Empirical harmonics before Aristoxenus;
- 3. The early empiricists in their cultural and intellectual contexts;
- 4. Interlude on Aristotle's account of a science and its methods;
- 5. Aristoxenus: the composition of the Elementa harmonica;
- 6. Aristoxenus: concepts and methods in Elementa harmonica Book 1;
- 7. Elementa harmonica Books 2-3: the science reconsidered;
- 8. Elementa harmonica Book 3 and its missing sequel;
- 9. Contexts and purposes of Aristoxenus' harmonics;
- Part III . Mathematical Harmonics:
- 10. Pythagorean harmonics in the fifth century: Philolaus;
- 11. Developments in Pythagorean harmonics: Archytas;
- 12. Plato;
- 13. Aristotle on the harmonic sciences;
- 14. Systematising mathematical harmonics: the Sectio canonis;
- 15. Quantification under attack: Theophrastus' critique; Postscript: The later centuries.