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Kabbalism, 75
Kaleidophone, 200, 202, 210
Kant, Immanuel (1724 – 1804), 170, 181, 185, 217,
231, 233, 241 – 242
Kassler, Jamie, 6
Keats, John (1795 – 1821), 279
Kepler, Johannes (1571 – 1630), 3, 6, 46, 48, 73 – 88,
99 – 100, 102 – 107, 116, 123, 127, 131, 279 – 280,
282
and Descartes, 99 – 100
and Galileo Galilei, 6, 52
and Mersenne, 102 – 107, 116
Kircher, Athanasius (1601 – 1680), 285n6
Kirchhoff, Gustav (1824 – 1887), 248, 265
Kittler, Friedrich (1943 – 2011), 6
Klein, Felix (1849 – 1925), 242
K ö nigsberg bridge problem, 4, 145 – 149
Kulturtr ä ger , 222, 233, 255, 271
Lagrange, Joseph Louis (1736 – 1813), 236, 252
Languages, 4, 161, 163, 170, 179, 190
Laplace, Pierre-Simon (1749 – 1827), 190
Lasso, Orlando di (1532 – 1594), 3, 63, 73 – 75, 78 – 82,
85 – 86, 102
Leibniz, Gottfried (1646 – 1716), 144 – 146, 151, 179
Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph (1742 – 1799), 162,
181 – 185, 188, 190
Lichtenberg figures, 182 – 183, 185, 188, 190
Lie, Sophus (1842 – 1899), 237 – 238, 242
Light
emission theory of, 151 – 154
infrared, 157, 188
medium theory, 152 – 155
polarization of, 177 – 178, 215
speed of, 151, 206, 214, 243, 268
transverse nature of, 4, 153, 178 – 179, 193, 196,
198, 206 – 209, 215
ultraviolet, 157, 188, 222, 249
wave theory of, 3 – 4, 7, 125, 127, 131, 151 – 155,
161 – 179, 221
Lines of force. See Force, lines of
Lobachevsky, Nicolai Ivanovich (1792 – 1856), 232,
242
Logarithms, 141, 143
Logos , 15 – 16
Lusitano, Vincente (d. after 1561), 61, 63
Luther, Martin (1483 – 1546), 56, 69, 82
Magnetism
Amp è re ’ s law, 4, 181, 185, 191 – 198, 207, 211 – 215,
233 196
Biot-Savart law, 181, 194
Magnitude ( pl ē thos ), 15, 17 – 18, 30, 55, 66, 69
Maier, Michael (1568 – 1622), 74
Mairan, Dortous de (1678 – 1771), 153
Malebranche, Nicolas (1638 – 1715), 131
Malus, É tienne-Louise (1775 – 1812), 177 – 178Manifold, 5, 148, 217, 219, 231 – 235, 238, 240 – 242,
273 – 274, 278
Mari ć , Mileva (1875 – 1948), 242
Mars, 33, 39, 84
Martianus Capella (fifth century C.E.), 46
Mathematics, 1 – 2, 5 – 9, 181, 271, 277 – 278, 280, 282,- See also Algebra; Arithmetic; Geometry;
Topology
ancient, 9, 16, 18, 27, 45
Euler and Continental, 133 – 158, 163, 179
and Helmholtz, 226, 229
Renaissance, 49, 55, 59, 63, 69, 72, 74, 89 – 90, 93,
103, 120
and Young, 161, 163, 176
Matrix, 25 – 27, 272 – 273
Maxwell, James Clerk (1831 – 1879), 22, 245, 248,
266, 269
Means (arithmetic, geometric, harmonic), 18, 56
Mechanics, 3, 94, 96, 114, 134, 136, 151, 256
celestial, 73, 89
classical, 226, 241, 255
continuum, 3, 89, 98, 151, 223, 266
matrix, 272
quantum, 245, 263, 272 – 278
statistical, 263
wave, 5, 272 – 277
Mei, Girolamo (1519 – 1594), 48 – 49
Melody, 34, 40, 48, 60 – 61, 66, 69, 73, 77 – 78, 83,
86 – 87, 92, 134, 173
Mersenne, Marin (1588 – 1648), 3, 90, 93 – 120
and Descartes, 90, 93 – 103, 116, 137
Metaphysics, 89, 134, 136
Metric, 273, 306n8
Miller, Clement, 59
Miracles, 13, 24, 39, 93
Mode, 14, 19, 35 – 36, 39 – 45, 83, 109, 123 – 126
Aeolian, 40 – 45, 137, 139
change of, 19, 35 – 40
Dorian, 124
Ionian, 40 – 45, 137
Lydian, 38
Mixolydian, 124
Phrygian, 38 – 40, 43 – 45, 78, 81, 288n6
tonus peregrinus , 38
vibrational, 198, 202, 205, 211 – 212, 248, 251
Modulation, 19, 35, 124, 137
Molecules, 248 – 249, 266
Monochord, 13, 21, 106, 116 – 117
Monodromy, 236, 306n27
Monteverdi, Claudio (1567 – 1643), 48, 70, 72
Moreno, Jairo, 6
Motet, 2, 31 – 32, 39 – 40, 43 – 45, 61, 69, 74, 78 – 82,
86, 102, 106
Mousik ē , 6 – 10, 14
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756 – 1791), 170, 271
Multiverse, 282
Murner, Thomas (1475 – ca. 1537), 69