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Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2001

Pages: 135-150

Series: Synthese Library

ISBN (Hardback): 9789048156467

Full citation:

Gianni Zanarini, "Hermann Von Helmholtz and Ernst Mach on musical consonance", in: The dawn of cognitive science, Berlin, Springer, 2001

Hermann Von Helmholtz and Ernst Mach on musical consonance

Gianni Zanarini

pp. 135-150

in: Liliana Albertazzi (ed), The dawn of cognitive science, Berlin, Springer, 2001

Abstract

In 1855, a young professor of anatomy and physiology in the University of Bonn (he was then only 34 years old) wrote a letter to a friend, who was also an academic colleague: indeed, he taught physiology in the University of Berlin. In that letter, the sender expressed his intention to devote himself to the study of acoustics. One year after, his scientific project was already well defined, and he could proudly write: "I have gradually accumulated a considerable amount of material for the reform of physiological acoustics."1

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Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2001

Pages: 135-150

Series: Synthese Library

ISBN (Hardback): 9789048156467

Full citation:

Gianni Zanarini, "Hermann Von Helmholtz and Ernst Mach on musical consonance", in: The dawn of cognitive science, Berlin, Springer, 2001