Dear Tristan, I'm super excited about your discovery, and thank you many times for providing it, as well as your other notes which are much appreciated. There must have been a lot more intercultural exchange back then than what we read in standard history books. I recently got a book from Daedalus titled "The Queen and the Sultan" about Queen Elizabeth I's communications and trading/ambassadorial exchanges with the Persian shah of that period, who had been humbled by a defeat at the hands of the sunni Turks. Queen Elizabeth's youthful representative had to sail north (to avoid Mediterranean pirates/Turks) and approach Persia via northern Russia/Central Asia and the Ukraine, completing a perilous journey. He didn't have much of value (mainly woolen cloth) with which to trade when he arrived. On the Galileo issue, I remember in Dava Sobel's book "Galileo's Daughter" she reports how a certain elderly (I believe German) Dominican cardinal in Rome claimed that Galileo's Medician satellites of Jupiter were mere aberrations in his telescope lenses, and refused to give credence. Shortly thereafter, this skeptical clergyman died, and Galileo charitably reported in his public writings regarding this prelate: "While on earth, he was unable to see the Medician satellites. Perhaps while wending his way to heaven, he shall finally see them." Sobel didn't mention Galileo offering a telescopic view to the Pope, but he did set up his telescope for high clergymen in Venice who were most impressed with what they saw. Best regards, Mark Seifert
On Tuesday, February 6, 2018 9:55 PM, Tristan von Neumann <tristanvonneum...@gmx.de> wrote: > Those who would even want to listen are fools. Of course, those who wouldn't. Am 07.02.2018 um 06:48 schrieb Tristan von Neumann: > I can't believe almost no one is excited about this discovery. > > All those who *still* doubt me, listen to this epic Raga Yaman > accompanied by John Bull's Fantasy XII. > I did nothing but adjust the pitch and placement of the tracks. > > [1]https://soundcloud.com/tristan-von-neumann/fantasy-xii-raga-yaman > > Those who would even want to listen are fools. > Like the pope who wouldn't look through Galilei's telescope. > > Those who will listen will hear. > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > -- References 1. https://soundcloud.com/tristan-von-neumann/fantasy-xii-raga-yaman 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
