Musical Backgrounds for English Literature: 1580-1650Rutgers University Press, 1962 - 292 pages The author traces the history of metaphysical ideas about music and explores the place of these in the poetry of Milton. |
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Page 142
... Aristotle , are made up of “ matter ” and " form " or " quality . " By sense perception man receives form without ... Aristotle , stirs physically the air that resides in the ear - pneuma or connatural air , later identified with spirits ...
... Aristotle , are made up of “ matter ” and " form " or " quality . " By sense perception man receives form without ... Aristotle , stirs physically the air that resides in the ear - pneuma or connatural air , later identified with spirits ...
Page 144
... Aristotle's , but since they located only the sensitive soul in the heart , for feeling , the rational soul in the brain , for perceiving , both hearing and emotional or intellectual response were involved processes . It is necessary ...
... Aristotle's , but since they located only the sensitive soul in the heart , for feeling , the rational soul in the brain , for perceiving , both hearing and emotional or intellectual response were involved processes . It is necessary ...
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... Aristotle , Generation of Animals , II.vi.744a ; V.ii.781a , tr . A. L. Peck , Loeb ed . , pp . 225-227 , 507 . 15. Aristotle , De anima , II.xi.423b , p . 133 . 16. Ibid . , II.xii.424a , p . 137 . 17. Aristotle , Movement of Animals ...
... Aristotle , Generation of Animals , II.vi.744a ; V.ii.781a , tr . A. L. Peck , Loeb ed . , pp . 225-227 , 507 . 15. Aristotle , De anima , II.xi.423b , p . 133 . 16. Ibid . , II.xii.424a , p . 137 . 17. Aristotle , Movement of Animals ...
Contents
A World of Instruments | 1 |
A Book of Knowledge | 21 |
An AntiPythagorean Cross | 126 |
Copyright | |
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