Principles and Power of Harmony (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Ptolemy very juilly fays, 'that it is the bufinefs of contemplation and fcience to fbew that the works of na ture are confiituted according to fome proportion and fettled order, and not at random, or as it were, by chance. But particularly this ought to be done in relation to the finei't of her works 5 Inch as thefe fenfes that approach the neareft to reafcih, viz. The fight and hearing.' Har mon. P. 7. Inthis I have laboured and endeavoured to reduce to a greater degree of facility, an art which has hitherto been involved in-calculations formidable enough to deter every common reader from attempting to underfiand it, calculations that icem to me more ingenious than ufefuil.

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