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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Pythagoras"”.
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Ο ΠΟΛΙΤΗΣ ΚΑΙ Ο ΠΑΡΑΓΩΓΟΣ
… TO PLATONIC PHILOSOPHY, THE TRADITION OF PYTHAGORAS AND THE CHRISTIAN CARTESIAN AND CANTIAN PHILOSOPHY.
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The Well Tempered Building; A Music Conservatory
… of Fifths led to a contemplation described by Pythagoras as "Music of the Spheres" or meeting between heaven and earth, between spiritual and material realms. The Well Tempered Building uses the Circle of Fifths as the underlying geometry for the foundation of the conservatory. Proportions from …
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Redesign of the platform-side actuation system for the Kendall Band interactive musical sculpture
… Kepler, Galileo, and two sets of bells known as Pythagoras, each operated by its own system of mechanisms and linkages, and "played" by passengers using handles located on each platform. The sculpture as a whole has ceased to function as a result of a series of mechanical failures. Repair needs …
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In pursuit of sound
… quantity of sound in order to generate space. Pythagoras unifies specific rules of harmony and proportion from sound in order to determine guidelines for pleasant spaces. Years later, Xenakis composes a musical score that informs the constructed surface of the Philips pavilion. Both pioneers of …
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Proportions and Light
… take to an emotional journey. The numbers for Pythagoras scale are the agreement of sounds that affects our ears with delight, the same that can please our eyes and our minds. Since harmonic ratios inherent in nature are revealed in music, the architect who relies on those harmonies makes use …
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The ritus canendi vetustissimus et novus of Johannes Legrense: a critical edition with translation, introduction and notes on the text
… mathematical ratio as portrayed in the legendary Pythagoras. If one is to view Johannes' work solely within this context, he is seen as a true conservative, for he mounts a strong attack against Marchetto da Padua's anti-Pythagorean views, and in particular his equal division of the whole tone and …
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Mathematical methods for radio pulsar searching and applications
… revolutionized this field, with Euclid and Pythagoras formalizing the mathematical thought into axioms and the- orems that are still valid today. A major cornerstone, which consecrated the role of mathematics for our understanding of the universe, was the development of the sci- entific …
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Lucretian stillness and motion as political metaphors in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
… motion, silence, and sound. In Met. 15, Ovid’s Pythagoras uses the Heraclitean doctrine of flux to highlight the impermanence of all such political regimes. By combining the traditional poetic use of flowing water as a symbol of literary and political expression with the traditional philosophic …
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Women in Early Pythagoreanism
… to begin with. The third chapter discusses Pythagoras’ teachings to and about women. Pythagorean doctrines did not exclusively affect the followers’ way of thinking and public activities, but also their private way of living. Thus, they also regulated key aspects of the female everyday life, …
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Body, soul, and architecture: a study of the premodern Islamic and Western tradition
… the foundations of this conception reach back to Pythagoras, who reduced the body to a set of mathematical ratios to be used in the act of building. In being a reflection of a cosmic model, these mathematical ratios of the body became the measure through which both the body and its constructed …
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Through the lens of freemasonry: the influence of ancient esoteric thought on Beethoven's late works
Scholarship on Ludwig van Beethoven has long addressed the composer’s affiliations with Freemasonry and other secret societies in an attempt to shed new light on his biography and works. Though Beethoven’s official membership remains unconfirmed, an examination of current scholarship and primary …