Chapter ID: CBB724965279

Zhu Zaiyu and the Equal Temperament (2021)

unapi

Xu, Fei (Author)
Jiang, Xiaoyuan (Editor)


Springer
Pages: 427-483
Publication date: 2021
Language: English


Zhu Zaiyu’s remarkable encyclopedic contributions in many fields of science and art were rare in ancient China and even in the history of world civilization. He solved the theoretical problem of transition and modulation that had plagued the music field for more than 2000 years. He created the mathematical formula of the equal temperament he called “the new law for density rate.”

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Authors & Contributors
Bellissima, Fabio
Ahlvers, Arthur
Barker, Andrew D.
Borzacchini, Luigi
Brancacci, Aldo
Brindley, Erica Fox
Journals
Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Bollettino di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Journal of Dialectics of Nature
Nei Menggu Shifan Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban)
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Carocci Editore
Champion
Edwin Mellen Press
Oxford University Press
Springer
Concepts
Mathematics
Music
East Asia, civilization and culture
Harmony (music theory)
Philosophy
Geometry
People
Plato
Zhu, Zaiyu
Euclid
Philo of Alexandria
Plutarch
Ptolemy, Claudius
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
Renaissance
3rd century
Han dynasty (China, 202 B.C.-220 A.D.)
Modern
Places
China
Greece
Pingyao (China)
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