The out-of-tune lyre of Pythagoras

Why, of all the arts, has music been the one that has most influenced important scientists such as Pythagoras, Newton, Kepler, and Galileo?

Through these pages, we will not only learn about some of the most fascinating obsessions that plagued these geniuses, but we will also see how even the simplest song can conceal a mathematical principle.

In The Out-of-Tune Lyre of Pythagoras, Almudena Martín Castro, one of the most original and influential popularizers in our country, presents a journey toward the search for beauty by scientists of all eras, and establishes common echoes with a discipline that we can all enjoy without any prior preparation: music.

Planets that sing like sopranos, Mesopotamian melodies that come back to life, mummies that recover their voices, forbidden harmonies mistakenly associated with the devil, or rhythms that unite the Earth and the Moon.