Music in the French Academy of Sciences, 1666-1793

FAIN: RO-12219-75

Stanford University (Stanford, CA 94305-2004)
Albert Cohen (Project Director: July 1975 to present)

To examine the role played by music, as a branch of mathematics and physics, in the scientific accomplishments of the 17th and 18th centuries in France. NEH is supporting the second phase of a three-phase project. Phase Two will concentrate on important but largely unknown archival documents relative to the activities of the French Scientific Academy before the Revolution.