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Some Musico-Mathematical Curiosities*
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2016
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“It is proper, in philosophy, to consider the similar, even in things far distant from each Other”—ARISTOTLE.
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About 75 B.C., Cicero the orator, stumbled upon an ancient monument. The lettering was illegible, but ‘on clearing away the brambles and thorns’ he discovered a curious design—a sphere with circumscribed cylinder.
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- Copyright © Mathematical Association 1964
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A lecture to the Mathematics Department, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, December 1962.
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