Complete Encyclopaedia of Music/A/Archimedes

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69227Complete Encyclopaedia of Music — ArchimedesJohn Weeks Moore

Archimedes, an ancient Greek philosopher, proposed a theorem to demonstrate the analogy between the proportions of certain solid bodies and those of the musical consonances. He thought the discovery of such importance to mankind, that he caused a diagram thereof to be engraved on his tomb.