Music and the Making of Modern Science

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Notes to pages 238–248 307



  1. For the non-Euclidean character of color space, see chapter 18.

  2. Helmholtz 1868; 1882, 2:616 – 617; Pesic 2007 , 50 – 51; see also Heinzmann 2001.

  3. The second edition (1885) of the Handbuch mentions Riemann and describes color perception as a three-
    dimensional manifold comparable to space; Helmholtz 1896 , 336.

  4. For the role of Heinrich Grassmann, see Torretti 1978 , 109; Scholz 1980.

  5. Helmholtz 1954 , 370, based on the fourth German edition (1877); cf. Helmholtz 1865 , 560; Helmholtz 1870 ,

  6. See also Vogel 1993 , 273.

  7. Helmholtz 1954 , 370.

  8. See Helmholtz 1995 , 76 – 95.

  9. Quoted in Pesic 2007 , 53 – 70, at 53.

  10. Ibid. , 64.

  11. Ibid. , 61.

  12. Ibid. , 59.

  13. For Immanuel Kant on space as a manifold, see Critique of Pure Reason B50; see also Lenoir 2006.

  14. Quoted in Pesic 2007 , 59.

  15. See Helmholtz 1977 , 159 – 160; Hyder 1999.

  16. Quoted in Pesic 2007, 68.

  17. See, e.g., Fullinwider 1990.

  18. Helmholtz writes his four-dimensional line element as ds 2 = dx 2 + dy 2 + dz 2 + dt 2 , in which he then allows
    t to become imaginary ( t = i τ ), so that the four-dimensional manifold is now pseudospherical and hence
    ds 2 = dx 2 + dy 2 + dz 2 − d τ 2 , exactly the form of the Lorentzian line-element used by Einstein and Minkowski, if
    τ =ct , where c is the speed of light.

  19. Abbott 1992; Pesic 2007 , 54 – 55; Reichenbach 1970, 308.

  20. See Hawkins 1994 ; 2000 , 124 – 130.

  21. See Hawkins 2000 , 34 – 42; Rowe 1992. For Clifford ’ s response, see Pesic 2007, 71 – 87.

  22. Quoted in Pesic 2007 , 109 – 116, at 110.

  23. Heinzmann 1992 , 2001.

  24. See Pesic 2007 , 100; for the Poincar é and Klein models, see Rosenfeld 1987 , 236 – 246.

  25. Einstein 1987 , 1:220.

  26. Solovine and Einstein 1956 , viii; Holton 1996 , 205; Cahan 2000 , 59 – 74.

  27. See Stein 1977 ; Carrier 1994 ; Friedman 2002 ; Ferreiros 2006.

  28. Quoted in Howard 2005 , 34.

  29. Einstein as quoted in Pesic 2007, 190. The mathematical details not given in his 1854 lecture are provided
    in Riemann 1990 , 423 – 436; Farwell and Knee 1990.

  30. Einstein 1987 , 6:569; second Einstein quote from Pesic 2007 , 161.
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  31. Sommerfeld 1934 , v.

  32. Å ngstr ö m 1855 , 327.

  33. See Pais 1986 , 166 – 205.

  34. H α 6562.1 Å , H β 4860.7 Å , H γ 4340.1 Å , H δ 4101.2 Å.

  35. Stoney 1871 , 291.

  36. Helmholtz 1954 , 23 – 24.

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