Penelope Gouk
Biographic Data
| ID | 130124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Penelope Gouk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Penelope |
| FAMILY NAME | Gouk |
| SIGNATURE | GOUK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 35 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Knowledge Building in Early Modern English Music Katie Bank
This is an ambitious and original book that should inspire historians, musicologists, and other scholars who are interested in learning more about music’s contribution to the Early Modern field of knowledge and how it altered the way that people think. It perfectly complements Linda Austern’s Both from the Ears and Mind: Thinking about Music in Early Modern England (coincidentally also published in 2020), a study that demonstrates unequivocally t…
Embodying the Voice
Music and the Literature of Science in Seventeenth-Century England
Music and the Literature of Science in Seventeenth-Century England
This chapter explains why music was so important to English natural philosophers in the seventeenth century and identifies the key scientific literature on the subject. In this period the term ‘science’ denoted a body of theoretical texts while ‘experimental philosophy’ was nearer to modern understandings of scientific endeavour, and it is this aspect of musical science that is chiefly focused on here. In his Sylva Sylvarum (1626) Francis Bacon a…
The Routledge Companion to Music, Mind and Well-Being
In recent decades, the relationship between music, emotions, health and well-being has become a hot topic. Scientific research and new neuro-imaging technologies have provided extraordinary new insights into how music affects our brains and bodies, and researchers in fields ranging from psychology and music therapy to history and sociology have turned their attention to the question of how music relates to mind, body, feelings and health, generat…
Routledge Companion to Music, Mind, and Well-Being
Vibrations cosmiques
La conception médiévale de musica mundana et de musica humana, selon laquelle l'univers et l'homme sont construits musicalement, a connu une seconde fortune au temps des Lumières. Ce paradigme musical fut en grande partie abandonné durant le xviie siècle sous l'influence cartésienne. Cependant, les idées développées par certains penseurs de la philosophie naturelle britannique montrent que plusieurs aspects de la tradition de l'harmonia mundi ont…
Cosmic vibrations
This paper argues that the medieval conception of musica mundana and musica humana, the idea that the universe and man are musically constructed, had an afterlife in the Enlightenment. The musical paradigm essentially dropped out of use in the seventeenth century, and was replaced by versions of Cartesian mechanism. However, by focusing on the ideas of certain British natural philosophers I show how they absorbed aspects of the harmonia mundi tra…
The Musical Iconography of Power in Seventeenth-Century Spain and Her Territories, by Sara Gonzalez
Journal Article The Musical Iconography of Power in Seventeenth-Century Spain and Her Territories, by Sara Gonzalez Get access The Musical Iconography of Power in Seventeenth-Century Spain and Her Territories, by Sara Gonzalez (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2013; pp. 207. £60). Penelope Gouk Penelope Gouk University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 130, Issu…
John Wallis
For readers of this journal, if he is recognized at all, John Wallis (1616–1703) is perhaps best known as the Oxford Savilian Professor of Geometry and Royal Society member who lent scientific authority to the Reverend Thomas Salmon’s schemes to develop an ‘improved’ tuning system for viols and lutes that would enable them to play in just intonation rather than equal temperament. Certainly it is in this capacity that Wallis makes a very fleeting …
Music and the Nerves, 1700–1900
The relationship between music and the nervous system is now the subject of intense interest for scientists and people in the humanities, but this is by no means a new phenomenon. This volume sets out
Transforming Matter, Refining the Spirit
Although tracing its origins back to antiquity, a distinctly new kind of alchemy emerged in mid-16th-century Europe. This new tradition developed out of the teachings of Paracelsus (1493–1541), a German medical practitioner who challenged the authority of university-trained physicians. He sought to establish a reformed kind of medicine based on first-hand experience of the natural world rather than dry scholastic texts. Alchemy was at the heart o…
Music and the emergence of experimental science in early modern Europe
The seventeenth century witnessed major advances in physics and experimental science. This paper argues that while the role of new visual technologies (e.g. the microscope) has been well studied, less attention has been paid to acoustic technologies in early modern natural philosophy. In particular, I attend to the relationship between making music, a specific form of organised sound mediated through instruments, and the production of new scienti…
Hearing Science in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
Benjamin Martin, the English natural philosopher, and Claude-Nicolas Le Cat, the French surgeon, both published important work on auditory physiology and function in the mid-eighteenth century. Despite their different backgrounds, there was consensus between the two scholars on key principles of hearing research, most notably the importance of the inner ear in relation to auditory perception. Martin's work (1755 [1763?]) drew directly on the surg…
Music and Society in Early Modern England
Music, Morals and the Body
This book focuses on five dissertations on music produced between 1653 and 1808 at the Royal Academy of Turku (also known as the University of Aura), a small but nevertheless fascinating body of texts that Sarjala uses to open up a window onto early modern thinking about music and its effects. Despite the fact that music did not enjoy much formal status (the institution was divided into four faculties of Theology, Law, Medicine and Philosophy) it…
In Search of Sound
This article is a contribution to early modern sound studies, from the perspective of intellectual history. In contrast to the way visual culture has been handled, few scholars in this field have considered sound in general, or even music in particular, as an agent of change, despite the wealth of scholarship available. Starting with Francis Bacon's ambitious plan to construct a total history of sound—an enterprise ultimately designed to improve …
The role of harmonics in the scientific revolution
This chapter aims to highlight the influential role that harmonics played in the "scientific revolution," which historians of science see taking place in Western thinking between the sixteenth and early eighteenth centuries. Between the publication of Nicolaus Copernicus's De revolutionibus in 1543 and Isaac Newton's Principia mathematica in 1687, a profound transformation took place in understanding about the laws governing the universe and man'…
Music and Musicians in Renaissance Cities and Towns
1University of Manchester Music and Musicians in Renaissance Cities and Towns FionaKisby CambridgeCambridge U.P. 2001188£40
Taylor, Brook
John Dee's Conversations with Angels; Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature, Deborah E. Harkness
Journal Article John Dee's Conversations with Angels; Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature, Deborah E. Harkness Get access Penelope Gouk Penelope Gouk University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 467, June 2001, Page 718, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.467.718 Published: 01 June 2001
Objective Science or Just a Metaphor
2001). Objective Science or Just a Metaphor? Nordic Journal of Music Therapy: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 65-68
Music, Science and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-Century England
Labour, Science and Technology in France
Journal Article Labour, Science and Technology in France Get access PENELOPE GOUK PENELOPE GOUK Wellcome Unit for the History of MedicineManchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 449, November 1997, Page 1268, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.449.1268 Published: 01 November 1997
Wellsprings of Achievement
Contents: Preface Strategies for understanding and interpreting achievement, Penelope Gouk Towards an understanding of intelligence, creativity and achievement, Deborah Christie a Achievementa (TM) and the macro-sociology of culture, Steven Shapin On achievement: a philosophical approach, Eckhard Kessler Springs of action or vocabularies of motive?, Michael Lynch 1066 and a wave of gadgets: the achievements of British growth, Donald N. McCloskey …
Music, Science and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-Century England
Music and Society in Early Modern England
Acoustics in the early Royal Society 1660-1680
The early Royal Society has been the focus of much attention by historians of science over many years, (1) but strangely enough there is no really detailed account to be found of the activities and discussions which took place in the weekly meetings, although there is ample information available on the subject. This study of the Royal Society’s collective interest in acoustics aims to provide a detailed analysis of an important subject that has n…
Music and the emergence of experimental science in early modern Europe
The seventeenth century witnessed major advances in physics and experimental science. This paper argues that while the role of new visual technologies (e.g. the microscope) has been well studied, less attention has been paid to acoustic technologies in early modern natural philosophy. In particular, I attend to the relationship between making music, a specific form of organised sound mediated through instruments, and the production of new scienti…
Objective Science or Just a Metaphor
2001). Objective Science or Just a Metaphor? Nordic Journal of Music Therapy: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 65-68
Performance practice
A generation or so ago, scholarly discussion about the creation of new scientific knowledge in seventeenth-century England was often framed in terms of the respective contributions of scholars and practitioners, the effects of their training and background, the relative importance of the universities compared with London, and of the role of external and internal factors, and so forth. These discourses have now largely been put aside in favour of …
An early critique of Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum
Edmund Chilmead (1610-54), a little-known scholar and musician, was the author of a possibly unique testimony to the interest among English natural philosophers in the nature of sound and philosophical music theory during the years following the publication of Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum (1626). Chilmead’s ‘An Examination... of the Naturall History’ is a manuscript treatise which takes the form of twenty ‘Quaeres’ on the second and third centu…
Transforming Matter, Refining the Spirit
Although tracing its origins back to antiquity, a distinctly new kind of alchemy emerged in mid-16th-century Europe. This new tradition developed out of the teachings of Paracelsus (1493–1541), a German medical practitioner who challenged the authority of university-trained physicians. He sought to establish a reformed kind of medicine based on first-hand experience of the natural world rather than dry scholastic texts. Alchemy was at the heart o…
Hearing Science in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
Benjamin Martin, the English natural philosopher, and Claude-Nicolas Le Cat, the French surgeon, both published important work on auditory physiology and function in the mid-eighteenth century. Despite their different backgrounds, there was consensus between the two scholars on key principles of hearing research, most notably the importance of the inner ear in relation to auditory perception. Martin's work (1755 [1763?]) drew directly on the surg…
Music, Morals and the Body
This book focuses on five dissertations on music produced between 1653 and 1808 at the Royal Academy of Turku (also known as the University of Aura), a small but nevertheless fascinating body of texts that Sarjala uses to open up a window onto early modern thinking about music and its effects. Despite the fact that music did not enjoy much formal status (the institution was divided into four faculties of Theology, Law, Medicine and Philosophy) it…
In Search of Sound
This article is a contribution to early modern sound studies, from the perspective of intellectual history. In contrast to the way visual culture has been handled, few scholars in this field have considered sound in general, or even music in particular, as an agent of change, despite the wealth of scholarship available. Starting with Francis Bacon's ambitious plan to construct a total history of sound—an enterprise ultimately designed to improve …
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access PENELOPE GOUK PENELOPE GOUK Warburg InstituteLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCIV, Issue CCCLXXIII, October 1979, Pages 924–925, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCIV.CCCLXXIII.924 Published: 01 October 1979
Acoustics in the early Royal Society 1660-1680
The early Royal Society has been the focus of much attention by historians of science over many years, (1) but strangely enough there is no really detailed account to be found of the activities and discussions which took place in the weekly meetings, although there is ample information available on the subject. This study of the Royal Society’s collective interest in acoustics aims to provide a detailed analysis of an important subject that has n…
An early critique of Bacon's Sylva Sylvarum
Edmund Chilmead (1610-54), a little-known scholar and musician, was the author of a possibly unique testimony to the interest among English natural philosophers in the nature of sound and philosophical music theory during the years following the publication of Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum (1626). Chilmead’s ‘An Examination... of the Naturall History’ is a manuscript treatise which takes the form of twenty ‘Quaeres’ on the second and third centu…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access PENELOPE GOUK PENELOPE GOUK St Hilda's CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CI, Issue CCCCI, October 1986, Pages 1002–1003, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CI.CCCCI.1002 Published: 01 October 1986
Prag um 1600
Prag um 1600: Kunst und Kultur am Hofe Rudolfs II; Prag um 1600: Beiträge zur Kunst und Kultur am Hofe Rodolfs II Get access Freren , Luca Verlag , 1988 . ISBN 3-923641-19-2 . 624 pp., 96 col. illus., c.480 b. & w. illus. DM 50 at the exhibition. Freren , Luca Verlag , 1988 . ISBN 3-923641-18-4 . 338 pp., 482 col. illus., 80 b. & w. illus. DM 40 at the exhibition. Penelope Gouk Penelope Gouk Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academ…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access PENELOPE GOUK PENELOPE GOUK St Catherine's CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVII, Issue CCCCXXV, October 1992, Pages 1014–1015, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVII.CCCCXXV.1014 Published: 01 October 1992
Pierre Gassendi, explorateur des sciences
Journal Article Pierre Gassendi, explorateur des sciences: Catalogue de l'exposition quatrième centenaire de la naissance de Pierre Gassendi, Musée de Digne 19 mai au 18 octobre 1992 Get access Anthony Turner with Nadine Gomez . Digne-les-Bains , 1992 . 204 pp., 17 col. illus., 140 b. & w. illus. Fr 250. Penelope Gouk Penelope Gouk Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the History of Collections, Volu…
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access PENELOPE GOUK PENELOPE GOUK St Catherine's CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVIII, Issue 426, January 1993, Pages 200–201, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVIII.426.200 Published: 01 January 1993
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access PENELOPE GOUK PENELOPE GOUK St Catherine's CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 435, February 1995, Pages 179–180, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.435.179 Published: 01 February 1995
Science, Art and Nature in Medieval and Modern Thought
The author sees the history of Western Science as the history of a vision and an argument, initiated by the ancient Greeks in their search for principles at once of nature and of argument itself. This scientific vision explored and controlled by argument, and the diversification of both vision and argument by scientific experience and by interaction with the wider contexts of intellectual culture, constitute the long history of European scientifi…
Shorter Notices
SHORTER NOTICES Get access PENELOPE GOUK PENELOPE GOUK St Catherine's CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXI, Issue 444, November 1996, Page 1276, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXI.444.1276 Published: 01 November 1996
Performance practice
A generation or so ago, scholarly discussion about the creation of new scientific knowledge in seventeenth-century England was often framed in terms of the respective contributions of scholars and practitioners, the effects of their training and background, the relative importance of the universities compared with London, and of the role of external and internal factors, and so forth. These discourses have now largely been put aside in favour of …
Labour, Science and Technology in France
Journal Article Labour, Science and Technology in France Get access PENELOPE GOUK PENELOPE GOUK Wellcome Unit for the History of MedicineManchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXII, Issue 449, November 1997, Page 1268, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CXII.449.1268 Published: 01 November 1997
Wellsprings of Achievement
Contents: Preface Strategies for understanding and interpreting achievement, Penelope Gouk Towards an understanding of intelligence, creativity and achievement, Deborah Christie a Achievementa (TM) and the macro-sociology of culture, Steven Shapin On achievement: a philosophical approach, Eckhard Kessler Springs of action or vocabularies of motive?, Michael Lynch 1066 and a wave of gadgets: the achievements of British growth, Donald N. McCloskey …
Music, Science and Natural Magic in Seventeenth-Century England
Taylor, Brook
John Dee's Conversations with Angels; Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature, Deborah E. Harkness
Journal Article John Dee's Conversations with Angels; Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature, Deborah E. Harkness Get access Penelope Gouk Penelope Gouk University of Manchester Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume 116, Issue 467, June 2001, Page 718, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.467.718 Published: 01 June 2001
Objective Science or Just a Metaphor
2001). Objective Science or Just a Metaphor? Nordic Journal of Music Therapy: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 65-68
The role of harmonics in the scientific revolution
This chapter aims to highlight the influential role that harmonics played in the "scientific revolution," which historians of science see taking place in Western thinking between the sixteenth and early eighteenth centuries. Between the publication of Nicolaus Copernicus's De revolutionibus in 1543 and Isaac Newton's Principia mathematica in 1687, a profound transformation took place in understanding about the laws governing the universe and man'…
Music and Musicians in Renaissance Cities and Towns
1University of Manchester Music and Musicians in Renaissance Cities and Towns FionaKisby CambridgeCambridge U.P. 2001188£40
Music, Morals and the Body
This book focuses on five dissertations on music produced between 1653 and 1808 at the Royal Academy of Turku (also known as the University of Aura), a small but nevertheless fascinating body of texts that Sarjala uses to open up a window onto early modern thinking about music and its effects. Despite the fact that music did not enjoy much formal status (the institution was divided into four faculties of Theology, Law, Medicine and Philosophy) it…
In Search of Sound
This article is a contribution to early modern sound studies, from the perspective of intellectual history. In contrast to the way visual culture has been handled, few scholars in this field have considered sound in general, or even music in particular, as an agent of change, despite the wealth of scholarship available. Starting with Francis Bacon's ambitious plan to construct a total history of sound—an enterprise ultimately designed to improve …
Hearing Science in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
Benjamin Martin, the English natural philosopher, and Claude-Nicolas Le Cat, the French surgeon, both published important work on auditory physiology and function in the mid-eighteenth century. Despite their different backgrounds, there was consensus between the two scholars on key principles of hearing research, most notably the importance of the inner ear in relation to auditory perception. Martin's work (1755 [1763?]) drew directly on the surg…
Music and Society in Early Modern England
Music and the emergence of experimental science in early modern Europe
The seventeenth century witnessed major advances in physics and experimental science. This paper argues that while the role of new visual technologies (e.g. the microscope) has been well studied, less attention has been paid to acoustic technologies in early modern natural philosophy. In particular, I attend to the relationship between making music, a specific form of organised sound mediated through instruments, and the production of new scienti…
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