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authorjulian laplace <julescarbon@gmail.com>2025-07-09 23:11:46 +0200
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</p>
<p>
- I later learned that I had rediscovered the Lambdoma, named for its
- resemblance to the Greek letter Lambda. The synergy of color and sound
- in the Lambdoma, linking the octave to the color wheel, was first
- studied in depth by artist and sound practitioner
- <a href="https://www.lambdoma.com/barbara-hero.html">Barbara Hero</a>.
- Hero made the Lambdoma her life's work, and built an 8x8 electronic
- Lambdoma instrument for sound healing purposes.
+ I later learned that I had constructed the "lamboid diagram" or
+ Lambdoma, named for its resemblance to the Greek letter Lambda. The
+ synergy of color and sound in the Lambdoma, linking the octave to the
+ color wheel, was studied in depth by artist and sound practitioner
+ <a href="https://www.lambdoma.com/">Barbara Hero</a>. Hero made the
+ Lambdoma her life's work, and built an 8x8 electronic Lambdoma
+ instrument for sound healing purposes.
</p>
<p>
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<a
href="https://archive.org/details/tonestudyinmusic0000leva/page/n5/mode/2up"
>Levarie and Levy</a
- >, which traces the Lambdoma back to Pythagoras (ca. 500 BCE) via the
- <i>Introduction to Arithmetic</i> by
+ >, who traces the Lambdoma back to Pythagoras (ca. 500 BCE) via the
+ <i>Theologumena arithmeticae</i> of
+ <a
+ href="https://archive.org/details/astius-theologumena-arithmeticae-gr-1817/page/159/mode/1up"
+ >Iambluchus</a
+ >
+ and the <i>Introduction to Arithmetic</i> by
<a
href="https://archive.org/details/nicomachus-introduction-to-arithmetic/page/191/mode/1up"
>Nicomachus of Gerasa</a
>
- (ca. 100 BCE). They suggest it has been rediscovered several times,
- including in the 19th century by Albert von Thimus, who
+ (ca. 100 BCE). The Lambdoma is mentioned by
+ <a
+ href="https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2008.01.0385%3Astephpage%3D1027b"
+ >Plutarch</a
+ >
+ in his commentary on Plato's <i>Timaeus</i>. It has been rediscovered
+ several times, including in the 19th century by Albert von Thimus, who
<a
href="https://archive.org/details/bsb10527783/page/137/mode/1up"
target="_blank"
>depicts it</a
>
in
- <i>Die harmonikale Symbolik des Alterthums</i> (1876). More can be
- gleaned from Hero's
+ <i>Die harmonikale Symbolik des Alterthums</i> (1876), and was used by
+ mathematician Georg Cantor in his theory of transfinite sets. More
+ information can be gleaned from Hero's
<a
href="https://lambdoma.com/pdfs/the-lambdoma-matrix-and-harmonic-intervals.pdf"
target="_blank"