Harmonograph examines the remarkable and mathematical beauty in sound and music.
During the nineteenth century, a remarkable scientific instrument known as a harmonograph revealed the beautiful patterns found in music. Harmonograph is an introduction to the evolution of simple harmonic theory, from the discoveries of Pythagoras to diatonic tuning and equal temperament. Beautiful drawings show the octave as triangle, the fifth as pentagram; diagrams show the principles of harmonics, overtones, and the monochord. Anthony Ashton examines the phenomenon of resonance in Chladni patterns, describes how to build a harmonograph of your own, and provides tables of world tuning systems. This inspiring book will appeal to musicians, mathematicians, designers, and artists alike.
Wooden Books was founded in 1999 by designer John Martineau near Hay-on-Wye. The aim was to produce a beautiful series of recycled books based on the classical philosophies, arts and sciences. Using the Beatrix Potter formula of text facing picture pages, and old-styles fonts, along with hand-drawn illustrations and 19th century engravings, the books are designed not to date. Small but stuffed with information. Eco friendly and educational. Big ideas in a tiny space. There are over 1,000,000 Wooden Books now in print worldwide and growing.

Harmonograph: A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music (Wooden Books)

Arts & Photography

Ashton, Anthony

Music

Bloomsbury USA

The quadrivium-the classical curriculum-comprises the four liberal arts of number, geometry, music, and cosmology. It was studied from antiquity to the Renaissance as a way of glimpsing the nature of reality. Geometry is number in space; music is number in time; and cosmology expresses number in space and time. Number, music, and geometry are metaphysical truths: life across the universe investigates them; they foreshadow the physical sciences. 
Quadrivium is the first volume to bring together these four subjects in many hundreds of years. Composed of six successful titles in the Wooden Books series-Sacred Geometry, Sacred Number, Harmonograph, The Elements of Music, Platonic &amp; Archimedean Solids, and A Little Book of Coincidence-it makes ancient wisdom and its astonishing interconnectedness accessible to us today.
Beautifully produced in six different colors of ink, Quadrivium will appeal to anyone interested in mathematics, music, astronomy, and how the universe works.
Wooden Books was founded in 1999 by designer John Martineau near Hay-on-Wye. The aim was to produce a beautiful series of recycled books based on the classical philosophies, arts and sciences. Using the Beatrix Potter formula of text facing picture pages, and old-styles fonts, along with hand-drawn illustrations and 19th century engravings, the books are designed not to date. Small but stuffed with information. Eco friendly and educational. Big ideas in a tiny space. There are over 1,000,000 Wooden Books now in print worldwide and growing.

Quadrivium: The Four Classical Liberal Arts of Number, Geometry, Music, & Cosmology (Wooden Books)

Sutton, Daud

Lundy, Miranda

Martineau, Jason

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An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber

WRIGHT, JAMES

Cibber, Colley

History

Nabu Press

Harmonograph

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Wodden Books

Harmonograph: A Visual Guide to the Mathematics of Music (Wooden Books Gift Book)

Wooden Books

About the Author\nAnthony Ashton is a journalist and economist. A lifelong interest in the building blocks of the sciences led him to the Harmonograph, a Victorian machine which draws musical intervals. After building a few in his garage, he wrote this book. He now lives in Girton, Cambridge.\nWhy did Pythagoras pause outside a Blacksmith's workshop? Can the nature of Harmony really be understood visually? Why do harmonies leave gaps or 'commas' when added together? In this charming pocket book Anthony Ashton uses a Victorian device called a Harmonograph to tell the story of Harmony and the intervals in the scale. With useful appendices and exquisite line drawings this is a unique and original introduction to this magical subject. WOODEN BOOKS US EDITIONS. Small books, BIG ideas. Tiny but packed with information. “Stunning" NEW YORK TIMES. "Fascinating" FINANCIAL TIMES. "Beautiful" LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS. "Rich and Artful" THE LANCET. "Genuinely mind-expanding" FORTEAN TIMES. "Excellent" NEW SCIENTIST.\nExcerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.\nMany of the drawings in this book were produced by a simple scientific instrument known as a harmonograph, an invention attributed to a Professor Blackburn in 1844. Towards the end of the nineteenth century there seems to have been a vogue for these instruments. Victorian gentlemen and ladies would attend 'soirées' or 'conversaziones', gathering round the instruments and exclaiming in wonder as they watched the beautiful and mysterious drawings appear. A shop in London sold portable models that could be folded into a case and taken to a party. There may well be some of these instruments hidden in lofts throughout the country. 
From the moment I first saw drawings of this kind I was hooked: not only because of their strange beauty, but because they seemed to have a meaning―a meaning which became clearer and deeper as I found out how to make and operate a harmonograph. The instrument draws pictures of musical harmonies, linking sight and sound. 
However, before going any further I feel I should issue a health warning. If you too are tempted to follow this path, beware! It is both fascinating and time-consuming. 
I have acknowledged my debt to the book Harmonic Vibrations. It was coming across this book in a library soon after the end of the Second World War that introduced me to the Harmonograph. Seeing that the book had been published by Newton & Co., a firm of scientific instrument makers in Wigmore Street I went one day to see if they were still there. They were, though reduced merely to making and selling projectors. I went into the shop and held up my library copy of the book for the elderly man behind the counter to see. 
“Have you any copies of this book left?” I asked him. 
He stared at me as though I was some sort of ghost, and shuffled away without a word, returning in a few minutes with a dusty, unbound copy of the book. 
“That's marvelous,” I said, “how much do you want for it?” 
“Take it”, he said, “it's our last copy, and we're closing down tomorrow”. So I have always felt that someday I must write this book.

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