Sujet
Musical theories of Pythagoras, 1492. Creator: Unknown.
Légende
Musical theories of Pythagoras, 1492. Men playing musical instruments and making sounds. At top left, an anvil is struck with hammers. Top right: Pythagoras playing the musical scale on bells and on water-glasses. He has made a sort of xylophone using glasses filled with ever smaller amounts of water. Bottom left: Pythagoras' discovery of the dependence of the musical intervals on certain arithemtical ratios of lengths of strings at the same tension. Bottom right: Pythagoras and Philolaus experimenting with musical pipes. Illustration from "Theorica musicae" (Theory of music) by Franchino Gaffurio.
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Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
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HRM23B15_163
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Droits gérés
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50,8Mo (3,6Mo) / 30,3cm x 42,0cm / 3583 x 4960 (300dpi)