Diagram in musical treatise
Date
6 August 1665
Creator
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
Object type
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Manuscript page number
p13
Material
Dimensions
height (page): 200mm
width (page): 150mm
width (page): 150mm
Subject
Description
This diagram appears in Tractatus Musicus, an anonymous musical tract, copied here by Henry Oldenburg.
Object history
Described as 'An incomplete treatise on acoustics that deals with the nature of sound, vibrating bodies, the organ of hearing, ratios and the derivation of musical intervals': Leta Miller and Albert Cohen, Music in the Royal Society of London, 1660-1806 (Detroit: Detroit Studies in Music Bibliography, 1987), p. 186.
Related fellows
Henry Oldenburg (1612 - 1677, German) , Scientific correspondent
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