Musical Backgrounds for English Literature, 1580-1650Greenwood Press, 1976 - 292 pages
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Page 78
... motion , and the motion set up by one could change into the motion of the other . The motion of sound , Plato had written in the Timaeus , is circular , akin to the circular motion of men's souls and to the motion of the spheres . Sound ...
... motion , and the motion set up by one could change into the motion of the other . The motion of sound , Plato had written in the Timaeus , is circular , akin to the circular motion of men's souls and to the motion of the spheres . Sound ...
Page 79
... motion of the spheres : If , as in water stir'd more circles bee Produc'd by one , love such additions take , Those like so many spheares , but one heaven make , For , they are all concentrique unto thee . " Circular motion , imaged in ...
... motion of the spheres : If , as in water stir'd more circles bee Produc'd by one , love such additions take , Those like so many spheares , but one heaven make , For , they are all concentrique unto thee . " Circular motion , imaged in ...
Page 142
... motion by sound . He was not explicit about the nature of this motion except to say that air re- bounds from the object that is struck , and that it vibrates.1o Motion of sound in the air was often described , from ancient times through ...
... motion by sound . He was not explicit about the nature of this motion except to say that air re- bounds from the object that is struck , and that it vibrates.1o Motion of sound in the air was often described , from ancient times through ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
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