Synopsis
An account of how scientific thinking developed from its Pythagorean origins to the present day. The story unfolds through the tales of both scientific instruments and musical ones: the organ, the microscope, the still, scales, violins and cellos, computers and electronic synthesisers. Yet the tools that have enabled us to scrutinize nature have also revealed to us the limitations of the scientific approach. In every age they have provided new answers, but in the process they have rewritten the questions we thought we were asking, altering the scope and shape of scientific enquiry.
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Review
"Thomas Levenson's user-friendly style and keen intellectual taste elevate this account of the ancient and intimate relationship between science and music to the level of the genuinely remarkable. A vivid, telling read" -- Timothy Ferris
"an idiosyncratic and thoroughly engaging history of science ... a lovely and provocative meditation on the nature of knowledge, how we acquire it and how music can usefully inform our future transactions with nature" -- Washington Post
About the Author
THOMAS LEVENSON is a professor of science writing at MIT and the author of three previous books: "Einstein in Berlin, Measure for Measure, "and "Ice Time. "He is also the producer of ten documentaries for which he has won numerous awards.
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