Music and the Making of Modern Science
252 Chapter 16 Theory of Sound (1877) refers only occasionally to musical matters.^21 Rayleigh makes clear that his real subject ...
Tuning the Atoms 253 inner possibility and necessity of this sort of accomplishment? ”^24 Insisting that he does not thereby den ...
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Though Balmer and Rayleigh did not comment on the disappearance of music as part of the foundations of their work, other scienti ...
256 Chapter 17 becoming a close friend, participating in Helmholtz ’ s musical evenings.^5 That year, Helm- holtz published the ...
Planck’s Cosmic Harmonium 257 the Schiedmayer piano factory of Stuttgart for the Ministry. I was given the task of using this mu ...
258 Chapter 17 thus allowing the performance of many kinds of temperament. Though the nonstandard keyboard required seems daunti ...
Planck’s Cosmic Harmonium 259 A B Figure 17.1 A 1911 Eitz harmonium and its keyboard (photo courtesy of Deutsches Museum). ...
260 Chapter 17 tunings. In the more normal setting of a choral rehearsal, he used a piano to give an accu- rate starting pitch a ...
Planck’s Cosmic Harmonium 261 To test this surprising result, Planck wrote a short composition (though he modestly does not use ...
262 Chapter 17 that in certain specific passages such as his first example and especially in the older reper- tory (such as his ...
Planck’s Cosmic Harmonium 263 years and generations. For before Johann Sebastian Bach, the tempered scale had not been at all un ...
264 Chapter 17 conception of sound sensation fit into this widening space between the world of physics and the sense world based ...
Planck’s Cosmic Harmonium 265 overlapped with the deaths of three of his most important colleagues, leaving him as the sole rema ...
266 Chapter 17 musical antecedents. To sample the distribution of energies inside the oven, Planck intro- duced an imaginary res ...
Planck’s Cosmic Harmonium 267 sounding (by thermal excitation) and resounding (by sympathetic vibration) a whole spec- trum of p ...
268 Chapter 17 To be sure, this analogy is not made explicit in any of Planck ’ s own writings and must be read judiciously: the ...
Planck’s Cosmic Harmonium 269 Even if one hesitates to take this analogy as definitive, Planck ’ s experience with musical issue ...
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Many of the physicists in the generation after Planck continued to be enthusiastic Kultur- tr ä ger , devoted especially to musi ...
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