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Wednesday, March 9, 2016
5:00 AM
340 West Hall

Although not widely recognized, music has had a significant effect on science and on the development of scientific concepts from ancient Greece to the present. This talk will focus on three seminal examples in the encounter between music and science: Johannes Kepler using new astronomical observations to find the "song of the Earth"; Isaac Newton imposing the musical octave on the spectrum; Max Planck experimenting with harmoniums and choruses before turning to black body radiation.

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Physics
Randall Lab and Homer A. Neal Lab
450 Church Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1040
734.764.4437
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