Download or read book Music in Renaissance Magic written by Gary Tomlinson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic enjoyed a vigorous revival in sixteenth-century Europe, attaining a prestige lost for over a millennium and becoming, for some, a kind of universal philosophy. Renaissance music also suggested a form of universal knowledge through renewed interest in two ancient themes: the Pythagorean and Platonic "harmony of the celestial spheres" and the legendary effects of the music of bards like Orpheus, Arion, and David. In this climate, Renaissance philosophers drew many new and provocative connections between music and the occult sciences. In Music in Renaissance Magic, Gary Tomlinson describes some of these connections and offers a fresh view of the development of early modern thought in Italy. Raising issues essential to postmodern historiography—issues of cultural distance and our relationship to the others who inhabit our constructions of the past —Tomlinson provides a rich store of ideas for students of early modern culture, for musicologists, and for historians of philosophy, science, and religion. "A scholarly step toward a goal that many composers have aimed for: to rescue the idea of New Age Music—that music can promote spiritual well-being—from the New Ageists who have reduced it to a level of sonic wallpaper."—Kyle Gann, Village Voice "An exemplary piece of musical and intellectual history, of interest to all students of the Renaissance as well as musicologists. . . . The author deserves congratulations for introducing this new approach to the study of Renaissance music."—Peter Burke, NOTES "Gary Tomlinson's Music in Renaissance Magic: Toward a Historiography of Others examines the 'otherness' of magical cosmology. . . . [A] passionate, eloquently melancholy, and important book."—Anne Lake Prescott, Studies in English Literature

Download or read book The Great Art of Knowing written by Daniel Stolzenberg and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Music Science and Natural Magic in Seventeenth century England written by Penelope Gouk and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Mechanical Mind in History written by Phil Husbands and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 2008 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of intelligent machines has become part of popular culture. Tracing the history of the actual science of machine intelligence reveals a rich network of cross-disciplinary contributions, and the origins of ideas now central to artificial intelligence, artificial life, cognitive science and neuroscience.

Download or read book Time s Arrow Time s Cycle written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines scientific theories pertaining to the measurement of earth's history.

Download or read book Mec nica de fluidos y m quinas hidr ulicas written by Claudio Mataix and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Instruments and the Imagination written by Thomas L. Hankins and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Hankins and Robert Silverman investigate an array of instruments from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century that seem at first to be marginal to science--magnetic clocks that were said to operate by the movements of sunflower seeds, magic lanterns, ocular harpsichords (machines that played different colored lights in harmonious mixtures), Aeolian harps (a form of wind chime), and other instruments of "natural magic" designed to produce wondrous effects. By looking at these and the first recording instruments, the stereoscope, and speaking machines, the authors show that "scientific instruments" first made their appearance as devices used to evoke wonder in the beholder, as in works of magic and the theater. The authors also demonstrate that these instruments, even though they were often "tricks," were seen by their inventors as more than trickery. In the view of Athanasius Kircher, for instance, the sunflower clock was not merely a hoax, but an effort to demonstrate, however fraudulently, his truly held belief that the ability of a flower to follow the sun was due to the same cosmic magnetic influence as that which moved the planets and caused the rotation of the earth. The marvels revealed in this work raise and answer questions about the connections between natural science and natural magic, the meaning of demonstration, the role of language and the senses in science, and the connections among art, music, literature, and natural science. Originally published in 1995. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Download or read book MECANICA DE FLUIDOS Y MAQUINAS HIDRAULICAS written by Claudio Mataix and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mec nica de fluidos written by Bergada Grañó, Josep María and published by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Iniciativa Digital Politècnica. This book was released on 2015-05 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2a Edición. El presente libro es fruto de la experiencia adquirida durante toda una carrera universitaria. Esta obra está diseñada para presentar los principios básicos de la Mecánica de Fluidos de una manera clara y muy sencilla, muchos de los problemas que se exponen fueron, en su momento, problemas de examen de la asignatura. Asimismo, pretende ser un libro de repaso para quienes, habiendo estudiado Ingeniería y trabajando en la industria, precisan fijar determinados conceptos sobre la materia. Finalmente, se desea que esta obra sirva de apoyo a todas las escuelas de los países de habla hispana que imparten las diversas Ingenierías. Espero y deseo que este libro sea un instrumento útil de introducción de la temática presentada.

Download or read book Fluidos bombas e instalaciones hidr ulicas written by Salvador de las Heras Jiménez and published by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Iniciativa Digital Politècnica. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Esta obra describe los principios fundamentales que rigen el funcionamiento de las bombas y las instalaciones hidráulicas más usuales, sus características operativas y los criterios de diseño y selección. El contenido del libro se estructura en tres grupos básicos. Los dos primeros temas tratan de la mecánica de los fluidos y sus propiedades: los principios y las leyes de conservación, el análisis dimensional y las condiciones especiales del flujo. Los temas tercero y cuarto se ocupan de las bombas hidráulicas: el tercer tema se centra en su descripción funcional, mientras que el cuarto se dedica a la teoría general que fundamenta el diseño de las turbomáquinas. Los dos temas siguientes se refieren al dimensionado y al cálculo de los sistemas hidráulicos y oleohidráulicos, e incluyen una descripción de sus componentes, sus medios de regulación y los problemas de explotación más comunes. Finalmente, los temas séptimo y octavo proporcionan algunas recomendaciones sobre el mantenimiento y la gestión de las instalaciones tratadas en la obra.

Download or read book Teor a de m quinas e instalaciones de fluidos written by Juan Antonio García Rodríguez and published by Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este libro recoge los contenidos teóricos que se imparten en la asignatura Máquinas e Instalaciones de Fluidos de los grados en Ingeniería de Tecnologías Industriales y en Ingeniería Mecánica que se imparten en la Escuela de Ingeniería y Arquitectura (EINA) de la Universidad de Zaragoza. Se incluyen también algunos aspectos no tratados en la actual asignatura con la intención de que el texto sirva como una primera aproximación para el tratamiento de las máquinas y de las instalaciones de fluidos

Download or read book Mec nica de fluidos written by Bergada Grañó, Josep María and published by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Iniciativa Digital Politècnica. This book was released on 2012-11-25 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: El presente libro es fruto de la experiencia adquirida durante toda una carrera universitaria. Esta obra está diseñada para presentar los principios básicos de la Mecánica de Fluidos de una manera clara y muy sencilla, muchos de los problemas que se exponen fueron, en su momento, problemas de examen de la asignatura. Asimismo, pretende ser un libro de repaso para quienes, habiendo estudiado Ingeniería y trabajando en la industria, precisan fijar determinados conceptos sobre la materia. Finalmente, se desea que esta obra sirva de apoyo a todas las escuelas de los países de habla hispana que imparten las diversas Ingenierías. Espero y deseo que este libro sea un instrumento útil de introducción de la temática presentada. Josep M Bergadà, es Ingeniero Industrial (especialidad: Mecánica) desde 1990 y Doctor Ingeniero Industrial desde 1996. Ejerce como profesor en el Departamento de Mecánica de Fluidos de la Escola Tècnica Superior d'enginyeries Industrial y Aeronàutica de Terrassa (ETSEIAT-UPC) desde hace mas de 22 años, y es Profesor Titular de Universidad desde el 2009. Durante este período, ha impartido clases de las asignaturas de Mecánica de Fluidos, Maquinas Hidráulicas, Gasdinámica y Oleohidráulica, en la actualidad imparte la asignatura de Mecánica de Fluidos. Su labor investigadora se ha orientado a la Oleohidráulica, campo en el que realizo su tesis doctoral. Ha formado parte de un grupo de investigación del Instituto de Investigación Textil, donde trabajó en diversos proyectos internacionales y ha estado trabajando durante más de 10 años (2000-2010) con el departamento de Mechanical Engineering de la Universidad de Cardiff (Reino Unido) en la optimización de maquinas volumétricas. A partir del año 2011, parte de su labor investigadora la desarrolla en la Technische Universität Berlin, (Alemania), centrándose en la actualidad en el desarrollo de modelos matemáticos aplicables en el campo de la Mecánica de Fluidos. Es autor de diversos libros, publicados tanto por Ediciones UPC como por editoriales externas a la UPC, y de más de ochenta artículos publicados en revistas y congresos nacionales e internacionales.

Download or read book Mec nica de los fluidos e hidr ulica written by Ranald V. Giles and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: