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12 - Music, Science, and Philosophy

from Part III - Institutions, Ideas, and the Order of Nature

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 January 2019

By
Jacomien Prins
Edited by
Iain Fenlon  and
Richard Wistreich
Iain Fenlon
Affiliation:
King's College, Cambridge
Richard Wistreich
Affiliation:
Royal College of Music, London
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The Cambridge History of Sixteenth-Century Music , pp. 439 - 471
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Print publication year: 2019

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