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John Wallis: Writings on Music - Wardhaugh, Benjamin, and Cram, David (Editor)
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John Wallis (1616-1703), was one of the foremost British mathematicians of the seventeenth century, and is also remembered for his important writings on grammar and logic. An interest in music theory led him to produce translations into Latin of three ancient Greek texts - those of Ptolemy, Porphyry and Bryennius - and involved him in discussions with Henry Oldenburg, the Secretary of the Royal Society, Thomas Salmon and other individuals as his ideas developed. The texts presented in this volume cover the relationship of ...

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John Wallis: Writings on Music 2020, Routledge, London

ISBN-13: 9780367669287

Paperback

John Wallis: Writings on Music 2014, Routledge, London

ISBN-13: 9780754668701

Hardcover