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Examples in Chapter 5 (in many footnotes and in-text links, as well as in the Bibliography):

1. Ernest G. McClain, The Myth of Invariance: The Origin of the Gods, Mathematics and Music from the Rg Veda to Plato (Maine: 1976)
2. (McClain 1976: p. 4)
3. 1976: glossary [multiple times]
4. 1976: p. 119
5. 1976: p. xi
6. 1976: pp. 102–103
7. discussed his Chart 23: “The gap which remains between a♭ and g♯ at the bottom of the circle is now narrowed to a diaschisma worth about 20 cents or 3/10 x 20 = 6 degrees, wondrously close to the 5 1/4-day shortage between the ancient calendar base of 360 days and the true solar year… The ratio results from the reciprocal meanings of 45:32…”
8. 1976: p. 80
9. 1976: p. 163
10. 1976, p. 142
11. 1976: p. 112

Example in Chapter 5’s General Queries:

• McClain: p. 197

Example in the book’s Bibliography:

• Ernest G. McClain, The Myth of Invariance: The Origin of the Gods, Mathematics and Music from the Rg Veda to Plato (Maine: 1976).

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Please note that another title by the same author still has a functioning link and needs no correction: Ernest G. McClain, The Pythagorean Plato: Prelude to the Song Itself (Maine: 1978). Citations to The Pythagorean Plato (in-text, footnotes, and in the Bibliography) still function.