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This book is the first complete translation of the Pythagorean philosopher Nicomachus of Gerasa. It is a concise and well organized introduction to the study of harmonics and contains an extensive commentary in which Flora Levin explains the principles of Pythagorean harmony. This important work constitutes a valuable resource for all students of ancient philosophy, Western cosmology, and the history of music. ... Read more

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A major contribution to the world of classics.
Flora R.Levin has one of the keenest and most perceptive minds around. What sets her writing apart from other classicists is her clear and unpretentious style infused with human qualities. She has the ability totake the reader by the hand, so to speak, and infuse him with her ownpassion for her subject. "The Manual of Harmonics of Nicomachus thePythagorean" is the creation of a profound scholar and a cultivated,sensitive musician. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Science and Its Times, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 491 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.The histories of science, technology, and mathematics merge with the study of humanities and social science in this interdisciplinary reference work. Essays on people, theories, discoveries, and concepts are combined with overviews, bibliographies of primary documents, and chronological elements to offer students a fascinating way to understand the impact of science on the course of human history and how science affects everyday life. Entries represent people and developments throughout the world, from about 2000 B.C. through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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Softcover Summary that accompanies the Franklin Library Leather edition of: Euclid - Archimedes - Apollonius of Perga - Nicomachus of Gerasa - Notes From the Editors - Book Summary. The Great Books of the Western World, 25th Anniversary Edition. 22 pages. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more