Title:
Musical theories of Pythagoras, 1492. Creator: Unknown.
Caption:
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.
Credit:
Album / Heritage Art/Heritage Images
Image size:
3583 x 4960 px | 50.8 MB
Print size:
30.3 x 42.0 cm | 11.9 x 16.5 in (300 dpi)
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