IMC 2019: Sessions
Session 834: Ordered Universe, IV: The Medieval Science of Sound as You've Never Heard It Before
Tuesday 2 July 2019, 16.30-18.00
Sponsor: | Ordered Universe Project |
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Organiser: | Giles E. M. Gasper, Department of History, Durham University |
Moderator/Chair: | Tom McLeish, Department of Physics / Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York |
Paper 834-a | Seeing Sound as Movement in the Medieval Mind (Language: English) Index terms: Science, Technology |
Paper 834-b | The Sound of Silence: Grosseteste's 'On the Generation of Sound' and the Secret Reception of Aristotle's Natural Philosophy (Language: English) Index terms: Philosophy, Science |
Abstract | Session 4 of 4: Taking as its centrepiece Robert Grosseteste's treatise On the Generation of Soundsthis session approaches the medieval science of sound from a contemporary as well as a historical perspective. Grosseteste's idiosyncratic account of how sound, and particularly vocal sound, is generated will be discussed on its own terms. In addition, however, modern scientific research can cast further light on the physical and perceptual phenomena surrounding sound that Grosseteste will have observed. The session showcases the exciting collaboration between historical and scientific approaches and the new light that can be shed on a medieval science of sound. |