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- catalog abstract ""The role of natural magic in the rise of seventeenth-century experimental science has been the subject of lively controversy for several decades. Now Penelope Gouk introduces a new element into the debate: how music mediated between these two domains. Arguing that changing musical practice in sixteenth-century Europe affected seventeenth-century English thought on science and magic, she maps the various relationships among these apparently separate disciplines. Gouk explores these relationships in several ways. She adopts the methods of social geography to discuss the disciplinary, social and intellectual overlapping of music, science and natural magic. She gives a historical account of the emergence of acoustics in English science, the harmonically based physics of Robert Hooke and the position of harmonics within Newton's transformation of natural philosophy. And she provides a gallery of images in which contemporary representations of instruments, practices and concepts demonstrate the way in which musical models informed and transformed those of natural philosophy. Gouk shows that as the occult features of music became subject to the new science of experimentation, and as their causes became evident, so natural magic was pushed outside the realms of scientific discourse."--Publisher's description.".
- catalog contributor b11103988.
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""The role of natural magic in the rise of seventeenth-century experimental science has been the subject of lively controversy for several decades. Now Penelope Gouk introduces a new element into the debate: how music mediated between these two domains. Arguing that changing musical practice in sixteenth-century Europe affected seventeenth-century English thought on science and magic, she maps the various relationships among these apparently separate disciplines. Gouk explores these relationships in several ways. She adopts the methods of social geography to discuss the disciplinary, social and intellectual overlapping of music, science and natural magic. She gives a historical account of the emergence of acoustics in English science, the harmonically based physics of Robert Hooke and the position of harmonics within Newton's transformation of natural philosophy. And she provides a gallery of images in which contemporary representations of instruments, practices and concepts demonstrate the way in which musical models informed and transformed those of natural philosophy. Gouk shows that as the occult features of music became subject to the new science of experimentation, and as their causes became evident, so natural magic was pushed outside the realms of scientific discourse."--Publisher's description.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-293) and index.".
- catalog description "pt. 1. Geographies. Disciplinary geographies: categories, boundaries and margins ; Social geographies: patterns of patronage, education and practice ; Intellectual geographies: music, natural magic and their relationship to experimental philosophy -- pt. 2. Gallery. Instruments: music represented -- pt. 3. Narratives. Musical acoustics: from Bacon to the Royal Society ; Robert Hooke: natural magician, experimental philosopher ; Isaac Newton: Pythagorean magus ; Epilogue: the making of music and the making of science: where did natural magic go? -- Appendix: key sources from antiquity to c. 1700.".
- catalog extent "xii, 308 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0300073836".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven : Yale University Press,".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "England.".
- catalog subject "509.4209032 21".
- catalog subject "Acoustics England.".
- catalog subject "Esthetics England.".
- catalog subject "ML 3800 G693m 1999".
- catalog subject "ML286.2 .G68 1999".
- catalog subject "Magic England History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Magic England History.".
- catalog subject "Magic history England.".
- catalog subject "Music England 17th century Acoustics and physics.".
- catalog subject "Music England 17th century History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Music England 17th century Philosophy and aesthetics.".
- catalog subject "Music England History.".
- catalog subject "Music and magic.".
- catalog subject "Music and science.".
- catalog subject "Music history England.".
- catalog subject "Science England History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Science England History.".
- catalog subject "Science history England.".
- catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. Geographies. Disciplinary geographies: categories, boundaries and margins ; Social geographies: patterns of patronage, education and practice ; Intellectual geographies: music, natural magic and their relationship to experimental philosophy -- pt. 2. Gallery. Instruments: music represented -- pt. 3. Narratives. Musical acoustics: from Bacon to the Royal Society ; Robert Hooke: natural magician, experimental philosopher ; Isaac Newton: Pythagorean magus ; Epilogue: the making of music and the making of science: where did natural magic go? -- Appendix: key sources from antiquity to c. 1700.".
- catalog title "Music, science, and natural magic in seventeenth-century England / Penelope Gouk.".
- catalog type "text".