Fact Check - 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord

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The Creation of Order »  Query: 5. Music, Temperament, and Social Concord

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What McClain[1] (1976: p. 119) called the “Jubilee” comma, 50:49, requires a mathematical base 1,260:630 to incorporate both this ratio and the “lunar” diesis of 125:128.

Note that McClain switched the order of numbers in this ratio and wrote: 49:50 (with the smaller number first).

Can you help us figure out if we should reverse the order written in Chapter 5 too?

Maybe Hudson had a reason to swap them, or maybe it was unintentional and should be reversed for consistency?

See also: Query about 1,260:630.

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  1. ↑ Ernest G. McClain, The Myth of Invariance: The Origin of the Gods, Mathematics and Music from the Rg Veda to Plato (Maine: 1976), p. 119.
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