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Akroasis - A New Translation by Joscelyn Godwin

Akroasis - A New Translation by Joscelyn Godwin

The Doctrine of the World Harmony

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An essential introduction to the subject of Harmonics and lead in to the Textbook of Harmonics

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An essential introduction to the subject of Harmonics and lead in to the Textbook of Harmonics

Subtitle:The Doctrine of the World Harmony

Content:"

Chapter I.
The Situation
Chapter II.
The Word "Harmonics"
The Concept of Harmonics in Classical Greece
In Antiquity
Pythagorism and Science
The Two Pythagorean Approaches
Evaluation of these Approaches in Antiquity
Today
Justification for Today
Chapter III.
Pythagoras and his Teachings
Secret Teaching in Antiquity
Plato's Seventh Letter
Character of Wisdom Teaching in Antiquity
The Pythagorean Table
The "Partial-tone Coordinates"
Some Pythagorean Fragments
Chapter IV.
Harmonical Background of Old Wisdom Teaching
A.von Thimus
3000 Years of Harmonical Tradition
Prerequisites for Harmonical Inquiry (Historical)
New Grounding of Harmonics
"The Hearing Man"
"The Sound of the World"
"Essays on the Ectype of Harmonical Values"
"Harmonia Plantarum"
"Textbook of Harmonics"
"Harmonical Studies"
Short survey of today's Harmonical Inquiry
Chapter V.
From the Harmoical Workshop
Tone-Spectra
Crystals
Geology
The Earth One Chord
Primeval Generation
Harmony of the Spheres
Kepler
Third Law of Kepler
Chapter VI.
Botany
Branch growth
Leaf Spectra
Goethe's Prototype of Leaf Forms
Linnaeus
Sexuality
The Three Kingdoms in Nature
The Ear
The Snail Shell
Ear Canals
The Ear as Organ of Time and Space
Sensitivity of the ear for time intervals
Reciprocity of eye and ear
Chapter VII.
A. Stifter
Proportions
Architectures
Harmonical Canon of Division
Modern Architecture
Acoustics of Auditoriums
Painting and Sculpture
Lepsius
Albrecht Durer
Importance of Study of Proportions
Wyneken
Modern Painting
Remarkable Symmetries in Classical Works
Musical theory
Harmonical Instruction in Conservatories
Modern Music
"The Shape of the Violin"
Chapter VIII.
The Humanities
Mathematics
Gestalt Mathematics
Word, Language, Poetry
Akroasis of the Word
Of the Language
Of Poetry
J. Burckhardt
Tone and Rhythm
Philosophy
Schopenhauer
Mythology
Symbolism
Two Concepts of God
Chapter IX.
The Position of Harmonics in Contemporary Thought
E. Cassirer, Mythical Thought
Modern Naturalistic Thought
C. G. Jung
The Collective Unconscious
The Position of Harmonics
A) Mythical Thinking
B) The Collective Unconscious and the Archetypes
Prototype and Archetype
C) Modern Scientific Thinking
Chapter X.
Limitation and Reflection
Chapter XI.
Thought
One of the Senses
Philosophy
Origin of Philosophy in Mysticism
Spirit
Steps of Cognition
Chapter XII
Activation of the Soul
The Individual and the Community
Having Time
The Dangers of Mass Culture
Position of Existence Values
Tolerance
Humanity
Objectivity
Universality
Chapter XIII.
Harmoniccs, a Theory of Correspondences
J. Gebser
The General Validity of Tonal Relations
The Law of Harmonical Quanta
Science and Freedom
The Heisenberg "Uncertainty Principle"
B. Bavink
Chapter XIV.
Harmony
Harmonics, a Theory of Consonances and Dissonances of the World
Harmonical Interpretation
The Planetary Intervals
Cosmological Interpretations of the Diagrams
Darkness and Light
The "Golden Age"
Reincarnation
The Metaphysical Remainder
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Date: 2023

Pages: 186

Binding: Hardcover

Publisher: ICE Translation Society

Author: Hans Kayser

ISBN:

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