Dear Amaya Garcìa Pèrez,
I read about mesolabium some times ago in Zarlino's Istitutioni Harmoniche.
If you know Italian, it contains a very good explanation. You can find it
in the Second Part of the book, at chapter 25-26. Moreover, Zarlino uses
this method for finding out comma's fractions in chapter 44 of the same
Second Part. I am triyng to calculate these comma's fractions using a
Mesolabium, but it is very difficult as I am not a matemathician. Have you
got any addictional information?
Sincerely,
Dr. Andrea Marcialis
Venice, Italy
At 04.55 26/06/00 -1300, you wrote:
>I would like to find more information about
>the "mesolabium", the device used in the Renaissance
>to find more than one mean-proportionals between two
>string lengths.
>
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