Music, Science, and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-Century England

by Penelope Gouk

The role of natural magic in the rise of seventeenth-century experimental science has been the subject of lively controversy for several decades. Now Penelope Gouk introduces a new element into the debate: how music mediated between these two domains. Arguing that changing musical practice in sixteenth-century Europe affected seventeenth-century English thought on science and magic, she maps the various relationships among these apparently separate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300073836
• ISBN13: 9780300073836
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.6"