It takes the average reader 6 hours and 6 minutes to read Music and the Making of Modern Science by Peter Pesic
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A wide-ranging exploration of how music has influenced science through the ages, from fifteenth-century cosmology to twentieth-century string theory. In the natural science of ancient Greece, music formed the meeting place between numbers and perception; for the next two millennia, Pesic tells us in Music and the Making of Modern Science, “liberal education” connected music with arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy within a fourfold study, the quadrivium. Peter Pesic argues provocatively that music has had a formative effect on the development of modern science—that music has been not just a...
Music and the Making of Modern Science by Peter Pesic is 357 pages long, and a total of 91,749 words.
This makes it 120% the length of the average book. It also has 112% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 8 hours and 21 minutes to read Music and the Making of Modern Science aloud.
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