Robert Hooke's Trinity College ‘Musick Scripts’, his music theory and the role of music in his cosmology

Kassler, Jamie C.; Oldroyd, David

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“…Men have a body harmoniously constructed and an harmonious soule to be affected thereby/ twas Pythagoras and divers others of the ancient philosophers that by search and enquiry found out the true reason of it, which I suppose might be one of the reasons why he and Plato asserted the soul to be made of numbers. (In Kassler & Oldroyd, 1983) For Hooke one of the key demonstrations of this principle is the process of music perception, where a clear correspondence can be made between the vibrations of a musical string and the perception of a musical tone, the ear functioning like a resonating instrument. In this regard, he followed Mersenne in the assumption that the more frequently musical vibrations strike the ear, the higher the pitch perceived.…”

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Music and the emergence of experimental science in early modern Europe

Gouk

2012

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The seventeenth century witnessed major advances in physics and experimental science. This paper argues that while the role of new visual technologies (e.g. the microscope) has been well studied, less attention has been paid to acoustic technologies in early modern natural philosophy. In particular, I attend to the relationship between making music, a specific form of organised sound mediated through instruments, and the production of new scientific knowledge. On the one hand, this relationship developed in the context of acoustics, a new discipline first mapped out by Francis Bacon. On the other hand, music’s relationship to natural philosophy was also more fundamental, since harmony was understood as an organising principle of the universe, the laws of musical strings providing a model for other forms of vibrative motion. I also show the importance of musical training for Galileo’s experiments and the significance of harmony for Isaac Newton and Robert Hooke.

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Music and the emergence of experimental science in early modern Europe

Gouk

2012

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“…Th is might account for his apparent uninterest in establishing the absolute frequency of visible vibrations in the case of the wheel. From other references in his diary Hooke seems to have been developing his theories of sound throughout 1676, but unfortunately we have very little more information about their content (see Kassler and Oldroyd 1983;Gouk 1980).…”

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Mathematics, music, and experiment in late seventeenth-century England

Wardhaugh

2008

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics

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The Scientific Revolution saw many subjects given new scrutiny, with attempts to use mathematical, mechanical, or experimental modes of explanation to gain understanding of them. One of those subjects was music. Already a tradition of mathematical study of musical intervals stretched back through the middle ages to ancient Greece, where the emphasis had been on ratios of the lengths of strings that formed particular musical intervals. In the seventeenth century there were new mathematical techniques and new kinds of mechanical explanation that could be applied instead (Wardhaugh 2006).

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“…Keynes (1960), 81-84 2Patterson (1950), 44; cf. Cooper and Hunter (2006), XIX3 Hall (1951);Oldroyd (1980);Kassler and Oldroyd (1983);Hunter and Wood (1986);Oldroyd (1987);Henderson (2007)…”

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Sacco

2020

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Robert Hooke's Trinity College ‘Musick Scripts’, his music theory and the role of music in his cosmology

Cited by 11 publications

References 9 publications

Music and the emergence of experimental science in early modern Europe

Music and the emergence of experimental science in early modern Europe

Mathematics, music, and experiment in late seventeenth-century England

Real, Mechanical, Experimental

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