Sigma Xi Public Talk
Music and the Making of Modern Science
Presented by Prof. Peter Pesic, St. John's College
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.
5:00 pm, Thursday, January 21, 2016
Room C, UNM Conference Center
Northeast corner of Indian School and University
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