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Ancient Greek scientific thinking

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Is There a Connection Between Ancient Greek Music and Scientific Understanding?

In the harmonious music section, we're looking at how people such as pythagoras sought to understand music in mathematical terms. And he did this er with a device called a monochord. In the exhibition, we've developed an interactive where visitors can explore the mathematics behind that - starting with the monochord and then looking at the owloss. The owl is a twin pipe instrument. An original example on display in the exhibition? This might be an impossible question to answer, but do we have any sense of what ancient greek music sounded like then it sounds you've got a way of reconstructing it? Here we do.

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