Ptolemy Harmonics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ptolemy Harmonics write by Jon Solomon. This book was released on 2018-07-17. Ptolemy Harmonics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ptolemy's comprehensive treatises on astronomy and geography were influential for nearly two millennia. Equally influential was his treatise on harmonics, the ancient science which combined and brought to completion the study of philosophy and science. This volume offers a comprehensive English translation and commentary of Ptolemy's Harmonics. The treatise begins with Ptolemy's study of pitches and intervals, for which he extracts both an idealized musical scale and a new acoustical tool. After discussing modulation, he expands his horizons by applying musical intervals to the human soul and celestial bodies, ultimately describing a cosmic harmony. The English translation faithfully reproduces Ptolemy's style and includes all the charts surviving in the manuscript tradition. The commentary offers a full exegesis of the text, loci paralleli, and citations of modern scholarly sources.
Scientific Method in Ptolemy's Harmonics
Scientific Method in Ptolemy's Harmonics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scientific Method in Ptolemy's Harmonics write by Andrew Barker. This book was released on 2000. Scientific Method in Ptolemy's Harmonics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The science called 'harmonics' was one of the major intellectual enterprises of Greek antiquity. Ptolemy's treatise seeks to invest it with new scientific rigour; its consistently sophisticated procedural self-awareness marks it as a key text in the history of science. This book is a sustained methodological exploration of Ptolemy's project. After an analysis of his explicit pronouncements on the science's aims and the methods appropriate to it, it examines Ptolemy's conduct of his investigation in detail, concluding that despite occasional uncertainties, the declared procedure is followed with remarkable fidelity. Ptolemy pursues tenaciously his novel objective of integrating closely the project's theoretical and empirical phases and shows astonishing mastery of the concept, the design and the conduct of controlled experimental tests. By opening up this neglected text to historians of science, the book aims to provide a point of departure for wider studies of Greek scientific method.
Porphyry's Commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics
Porphyry's Commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Porphyry's Commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics write by . This book was released on 2015-09-15. Porphyry's Commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Porphyry's Commentary, the only surviving ancient commentary on a technical text, is not merely a study of Ptolemy's Harmonics. It includes virtually free-standing philosophical essays on epistemology, metaphysics, scientific methodology, aspects of the Aristotelian categories and the relations between Aristotle's views and Plato's, and a host of briefer comments on other matters of wide philosophical interest. For musicologists it is widely recognised as a treasury of quotations from earlier treatises, many of them otherwise unknown; but Porphyry's own reflections on musical concepts (for instance notes, intervals and their relation to ratios, quantitative and qualitative conceptions of pitch, the continuous and discontinuous forms of vocal movement, and so on) and his snapshots of contemporary music-making have been undeservedly neglected. This volume presents the first English translation and a revised Greek text of the Commentary, with an introduction and notes designed to assist readers in engaging with this important and intricate work.
Ptolemy's Philosophy
Ptolemy's Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ptolemy's Philosophy write by Jacqueline Feke. This book was released on 2020-10-13. Ptolemy's Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A stimulating intellectual history of Ptolemy's philosophy and his conception of a world in which mathematics reigns supreme The Greco-Roman mathematician Claudius Ptolemy is one of the most significant figures in the history of science. He is remembered today for his astronomy, but his philosophy is almost entirely lost to history. This groundbreaking book is the first to reconstruct Ptolemy’s general philosophical system—including his metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics—and to explore its relationship to astronomy, harmonics, element theory, astrology, cosmology, psychology, and theology. In this stimulating intellectual history, Jacqueline Feke uncovers references to a complex and sophisticated philosophical agenda scattered among Ptolemy’s technical studies in the physical and mathematical sciences. She shows how he developed a philosophy that was radical and even subversive, appropriating ideas and turning them against the very philosophers from whom he drew influence. Feke reveals how Ptolemy’s unique system is at once a critique of prevailing philosophical trends and a conception of the world in which mathematics reigns supreme. A compelling work of scholarship, Ptolemy’s Philosophy demonstrates how Ptolemy situated mathematics at the very foundation of all philosophy—theoretical and practical—and advanced the mathematical way of life as the true path to human perfection.
Harmony in Ptolemy's Harmonics
Harmony in Ptolemy's Harmonics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Harmony in Ptolemy's Harmonics write by Jon Solomon. This book was released on 1990. Harmony in Ptolemy's Harmonics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
