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Some Musico-Mathematical Curiosities*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

A. L. Leigh Silver
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Extract

“It is proper, in philosophy, to consider the similar, even in things far distant from each Other”—ARISTOTLE.

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About 75 B.C., Cicero the orator, stumbled upon an ancient monument. The lettering was illegible, but ‘on clearing away the brambles and thorns’ he discovered a curious design—a sphere with circumscribed cylinder.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 48 , Issue 363 , February 1964 , pp. 1 - 17
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1964

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Footnotes

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A lecture to the Mathematics Department, Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, December 1962.

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