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Music and the Making of Modern Science
Thursday January 21, 2016
| 5:00 pm
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Presenter: | Prof. Peter Pesic, St. John's College |
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| Series: | Sigma Xi Public Talk | |
| Abstract: | Music affected science from ancient Greece to the present. This talk presents three seminal encounters between music and science: Johannes Kepler using new astronomical observations to find the "song of the Earth"; Isaac Newton imposing the musical octave on the spectrum; Max Planck experimenting with harmoniums and choruses before turning to black body radiation. | |
| Location: | Room C, UNM Conference Center | |
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