Music and Science in the Age of Galileo
Music and Science in the Age of Galileo features twelve new essays by leading specialists in the fields of musicology, history of science, astronomy, philosophy, and instrument building that explore the relations between music and the scientific culture o
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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO SERIES IN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE ASERIES OF BOOKS IN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, METHODOLOGY, EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, HISTORY OF SCIENCE, AND RELATED FJELDS
Managing Editor ROBERT E. BUTTS
Dept.
0/ Philosophy, University o/Western Ontario, Canada Editorial Board JEFFREY BUB,
University 0/ Maryland
L. JONATHAN COHEN,
WILLIAM DEMOPOULOS, WILLIAM HARPER,
Queen' s College, Oxford
University o/Western Ontario
University o/Western Ontario
JAAKKO HINTIKKA,
Boston University
CLIFFORDA. HOOKER,
University o/Newcastle
HENRY E. KYBURG, JR.,
University 0/ Rochester
AUSONIO MARRAS,
University o/Western Ontario
JÜRGEN MITTELSTRASS,
Universität Konstanz
JOHN M. NICHOLAS,
University o/Western Ontario
GLENN A. PEARCE,
University o/Western Ontario
BAS C. VAN FRAASSEN,
Princeton University
VOLUME51
MUSIC AND SCIENCE IN THE AGE OF GALILEO Edited by
VICTOR COELHO Department 01 Music, The University olCalgary, Alberta, Canada
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA. B.V.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Music and sc1ence 1n the age of Gal11eo / ed1ted by V1ctor Coelho. p. cm. -- (UniVers1ty of Western Ontario ser1es 1n ph11osophy of science; v. 51) Includes b1b11ograph1cal references and 1ndex. ISBN 978-90-481-4218-7 ISBN 978-94-015-8004-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-015-8004-5 1. Mus1c and sC1ence--Congresses. 2. Music--Phl1osophy and aesthetics--Congresses. 3. Galilei, Galtleo, 1564-1642--Congresses. I. Coelho, Vlctor. II. Series. ML3800.M87 1992 780' .9'032--dc20 92-33288
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CONTENTS
Preface
ix PART I
Historical, Contemporary, and Celestial Models for the Musical and Scientific Revolution in the Age of Galileo Music and Philosophy in Early Modem Seienee Stillman Drake
3
Beats and the Origins of Early Modem Seienee H. Floris Cohen
17
Musie and the Crisis of Seventeenth-Century Europe Alexander Silbiger
35
Kepler, Galilei, and the Harrnony of the World Owen Gingerich
45
PART 11
Symbolical and Philosophical Perspectives on Galileo and Music The Artistie Patronage of the Barberini and the Galileo Affair Frederick Hammond
67
Musical Myth and Galilean Seienee in Giovanni Serodine's Allegoria della scienza Victor Coelho
91
Tiekles, Titillations, and the WondeIful Aeeidents of Sounds: Galileo and the Consonanees Robert E. Butts
115
Galileo and the Demise of Pythagoreanism William Jordan
129
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MUSIC AND SCIENCE IN TIIE AGE OF GALILEO
PARTIII
The Musical Background of Seventeenth-Century Science: Theory, Practice, and Craftsmanship Was Galileo's Father an
