Universal Harmony in the Age of Eloquence Margaret Koehler First published in 1869

First published in 1869

the book shines a light on forgotten women poets and artists whose contributions to the modernist movement have long been overshadowed by their male counterparts

In this highly original book

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Universal Harmony in the Age of Eloquence Margaret Koehler First published in 1869Working from a monastic cell in Paris, French polymath and savant Marin Mersenne became a key facilitator of the early scientific revolution. An interdisciplinary music theorist, Mersenne drew from the burgeoning field of rhetoric to describe, analyze, and teach musical structures. At a time when the heart of seventeenth century rhetoric seemed to be firmly in Germany, Marsenne's writings demonstrate that these phenomena extended far beyond those