John Wallis : writings on music /

Publication Type:

Book

Source:

Burlington, VT : Ashgate,, United States, p.239 pages : (2014)

ISBN:

0754668703

Call Number:

ML174

Other Number:

11763562

Keywords:

Early works to 1800., Music theory, Musikteori., sao

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-235) and index.Letters to Henry Oldenburg, May 1664 -- Letters to Henry Oldenburg, March 1677 -- The harmonics of the ancients compared with today's : appendix to Ptolemy's Harmonics, 1682 -- Notice of Wallis's Ptolemy edition in the philosophical transactions, January 1683 -- A response to A musical question, March 1698 -- A letter to Samuel Pepys, printed in the Philosophical transactions, May 1698 -- Letters to Andrew Fletcher, August 1698.