Schedule May 06, 2015
Music and the making of modern science
Peter Pesic, St. John's College and Harvard University

Music affected science from ancient Greece to the present. This talk presents three seminal encounters between music and science: Johannes Kepler using new astronomical observations to find the "song of the Earth"; Isaac Newton imposing the musical octave on the spectrum; Max Planck experimenting with harmoniums and choruses before turning to black body radiation.

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