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CATEGORIES:Whipple Museum of the History of Science
SUMMARY:An ingenious gadget from a Greek musical theorist'
 s workshop - Andrew Barker (University of Birmingh
 am)
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UID:TALK11950AThttp://talks.cam.ac.uk
URL:http://talks.cam.ac.uk/talk/index/11950
DESCRIPTION:Most pieces of apparatus used by ancient Greek mus
 ical theorists to illustrate and sometimes to test
  their hypotheses were very simple\, but one of th
 em\, described in considerable detail by the great
  scientist Ptolemy in the 2nd century AD\, is much
  more complex and interesting.  In his talk Profes
 sor Barker will present and discuss his home-made 
 reconstruction of this unusual instrument\, with p
 ractical demonstrations of what it can (and cannot
 ) do.\n\nThis talk is presented by the Whipple Mus
 eum's Science of Musical Sound Project and is open
  to all.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, History and Philosophy of Science
 \, Department of
CONTACT:Torben Rees
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