John Wallis: Writings on Music (Music Theory in Britain, 1500-1700: Critical Editions)

by Benjamin Wardhaugh (Author), David Cram (Editor), Benjamin Wardhaugh (Author), David Cram (Editor)

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  Hardcover
  2014

  $198.89

  John Wallis (1616-1703), was one of the foremost British mathematicians of the seventeenth century, and is also remembered for his important writings on grammar and logic. An interest in music theory led him to produce translations into Latin of three ancient Greek texts - those of Ptolemy.