Paper, 'The theory of musick reduced to mathematicks' by Tho [Thomas] Salmon

Reference number: CLP/2/30

Date: 1705

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Attempts to fix the mathematical foundations of the theory of music relating intervals in mathematical proportions, following a musical experiment tried before the Royal Society at Gresham College.

Subject: Mathematics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The theory of musick reduced to arithmetical and geometrical proportions'.

Read to the Royal Society on 3 July 1705.

Reference number: CLP/2/30
Earliest possible date: 1705
Physical description: Ink on paper
Page extent: 4 pages
Format: Manuscript

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Paper, 'The theory of musick reduced to mathematicks' by Tho [Thomas] Salmon, 1705, CLP/2/30, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/clp_2_30/paper-the-theory-of-musick-reduced-to-mathematicks-by-tho-thomas-salmon, accessed on 14 May 2026

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Author: Thomas Salmon

Date: 1st August 1705

DOI: 10.1098/rstl.1704.0088

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Classified papers: volume 2 concerning 'Surveying, Opticks, Perspective, Sculpture, Painting, Music, Acoustics Mechanicks'
1656-1737 Reference number: CLP/2

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