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Sounding Bodies: Music and the Making of Biomedical Science
Sounding Bodies: Music and the Making of Biomedical Science
By
Peter Pesic
Peter Pesic

Peter Pesic, writer, pianist, and scholar, is Director of the Science Institute, Musician-in-Residence, and Tutor Emeritus at St. John's College, Santa Fe. He is the author of Labyrinth, Seeing Double (named as an Outstanding Academic Book of 2002 by Choice magazine), Abel's Proof (winner of the Peano Prize), Sky in a Bottle, Music and the Making of Modern Science (winner of the PROSE Award in 2015), and Polyphonic Minds, all published by the MIT Press.

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/14125.001.0001
ISBN electronic:
9780262367707
Publication date:
2022
Chapter Contents
Book Chapter

Part I: Musical Origins

  • Published:
    2022
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Pythagorean Medicine

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The Controversial Project

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Musica humana

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Homage to Herophilus

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Kepler’s Harmonic Physiology

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The Musical Disease

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