Matteo Varoli
Biographic Data
| ID | 9963687 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matteo Varoli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matteo |
| FAMILY NAME | Varoli |
| SIGNATURE | VAROLI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Genoa |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-0792-415X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Pliny and the Silence of the Spheres
This article deals with two passages from the second book of Pliny the Elder’s Natural History , devoted to the topic of cosmic music. Pliny seems to reject a theory that was widely accepted in most contemporary sources as a commonplace. A close survey of these passages sheds some light on the reasons for Pliny’s scepticism: he looks well informed about the philosophical debate about the problems of acoustics that the theory raised as early as th…
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Pliny and the Silence of the Spheres
This article deals with two passages from the second book of Pliny the Elder’s Natural History , devoted to the topic of cosmic music. Pliny seems to reject a theory that was widely accepted in most contemporary sources as a commonplace. A close survey of these passages sheds some light on the reasons for Pliny’s scepticism: he looks well informed about the philosophical debate about the problems of acoustics that the theory raised as early as th…
Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (1 work) · Epistemology (1 work) · Historical and Literary Studies (1 work) · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies (1 work) · Literature (1 work) · Philosophy (1 work) · Pythagorean theorem (1 work) · Silence (1 work)