source file: mills2.txt
Date:         Tue, 26 Sep 1995 22:14:09 -0400

Subject:      Re: temperaments

From:         Tom Parsons <twp@PANIX.COM>

On Tue, 26 Sep 1995, mcgeary thomas nelson wrote:

> Is is usually the pattern, that it is the mathematicians, the theorists,
> the gentleman natural scientists, and the like, who are fascinated by
> the mental problem of temperament that explored all the sublted
>  subtle, that is, temperaments.

I believe this is true.  I read somewhere once (in Barbour?) that e.t.
was first worked out by a Chinese mathematician incredibly far back in
the past.  And the author pointed out that in the Chinese musical
system there was no need for it.

(If someone knows more recent scholarship on this, I'd be interested
to hear of it.)

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Tom Parsons     | To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing
D.T.L.          |   about intellectual issues; it means taking
                |   pleasure in them.  --Jacob Bronowski