Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Raise this orphan! Bach and the periodic table via Buckminster Fuller


Raise this orphan!  Bach and the periodic table via Buckminster Fuller

Page 258, ‘Nine Chains to the Moon’ (1938): ‘Bach’s point-counterpoint mathematical ramification of music is the harmoniously sensorial counterpart of Mendelejeff’s abstract exploration (CHH—the periodic table); interestingly the octave period is common to both.’

Later. ‘Mendelejeff inserted all the mathematical descriptions of the undiscovered elements. One by one over a period of 70 years science has discovered them and has found them to have precisely each and every characteristic prognosticated by Mendelejeff'