Instruments and the Imagination

by Thomas L. Hankins, Robert J Silverman, Robert J. Silverman

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Thomas Hankins and Robert Silverman investigate an array of instruments from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century that seem at first to be marginal to science--magnetic clocks that were said to operate by the movements of sunflower seeds, magic lanterns, ocular harpsichords (machines that played different colored lights in harmonious mixtures), Aeolian harps (a form of wind chime), and other instruments of "natural magic" designed to produce...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691029970

ISBN13:9780691029979

Release Date:September 1995

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.55 lbs.

Dimensions:1.2" x 7.8" x 10.0"

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