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Measure for Measure: A Musical History of Science
by Thomas Levenson
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0684804344
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: 1995-12-05
Publisher: Touchstone
Release Date: 1995-12-05
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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.
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