Tentamen Novae Theoriae Musicae Ex Certissimis Harmoniae Principiis Dilucide Expositae

by Leonhard Euler

$5,000 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

First edition

St. Petersburg: ex Typographia Academiae Scientiarum, 1739. First edition, and a remarkable copy in original state, of Euler’s most important work on music. The Swiss mathematician, scientist and philosopher Leonhard Euler 1707-1783 “contributed more to theoretical acoustics as the subject is now known than has any other man” The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians .

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