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\Huge Excerpts from\\\textit{Deliciae Physico-Mathematicae}

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\Huge \textit{G.P. Harsd\"{o}rffer}
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Copyright \copyright \ 2007 William Zeitler

www.GlassArmonica.com
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\section{Notes}

Georg Philipp Harsd\"{o}rffer (1607\EnDash{}1658), German poet, was born at Nuremberg. He studied law at Altdorf and Strassburg, and subsequently traveled through the Netherlands, England, France and Italy. His knowledge of languages gained for him the appellation ``the learned''. His writings in German and Latin fill fifty volumes.

In 1636 Harsd\"{o}rffer published (along with Schwenter) a work entitled \Title{De\-li\-ci\-ae Physi\-co-Math\-e\-matic\-ae} \footnote{Harsd\"{o}rffer, G. P., Schwenter, D. (1636); \textit{Deliciae Mathematicae et Physicae}; D\"{u}mleis; Nürnberg; (1991, Keip, Frankfurt); ISBN 3805108028}\EmDash{}which consists of 3 volumes of mathematical and physics curiosities (as in 'parlor tricks'), observations on music and poetry, designs for curious machines, observations on biology, etc. 

Harsd\"{o}rffer's \Title{Deliciae physico-mathematicae} is often cited for his article on 'merry wine-music'. But virtually not-cited-at-all is another article about putting liquids besides water in wineglasses (like brandy, ferinstance).

Happily, Harsd\"{o}rffer's book was reprinted in 1991 (essentially a good photocopy of the original). Even that is very hard to find, to say the least. I keep lurking on the internet, looking for it, waiting. All of a sudden it showed up on page 7 of yet another Google search for it. I emailed the bookseller. He replied\EmDash{}``We don't have it, let me check with the publisher''. A week later: ``they have just one copy left\EmDash{}do you want it?'' (I leave it to the reader's imagination what my reply was.)

I've excerpted the three passages I've been able to find that deal with glass music at all. The first is well known, the second less so, and there's a third that involves water-filled wine-glasses in a non-musical context.

For those who wish to quote Harsd\"{o}rffer's \textit{Deliciae}, I've noted the page breaks in the text with angle-brackets: $<$2$>$ indicates a page break beginning at page 2.

Because of the poor quality of the original I had to manually transcribe the text. In spite of all my efforts to eliminate errors, I'm sure some still lurk, for which I apologize in advance. I've preserved the old German spellings (appropriate for the time)---I am grateful in advance for any other bona fide typos of which Gentle Readers are kind enough to give me notice. I equally welcome better translations. I will be honored to thank and credit such contributors in future 'editions'. 

I already have to thank a very helpful online resource: http://www2.dict.cc. The online dictionary feature is helpful, especially since it suggests alternate spellings (which have changed over the last almost-half-millenium). But I particularly have to thank the participants in the forums, to whom I have been able to submit samples of 400-year-old German to their collective opinion, and invariably receive multiple helpful suggestions within an hour, some of which betray a deep knowledge of the German language past and present.

You are welcome to copy and share this document as long as you do so without charge, and do not alter it in any way.
My intention is to make this document---important in the history of glass music---freely available to the wide audience it deserves.

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\textit{William Zeitler}

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\section{\Title{De\-li\-ci\-ae Physi\-co-Math\-e\-matic\-ae} (1636)\\G.P.Harsd\"{o}rffer }

\subsection{``Merry Wine-Music''}
In vol.2, pg. 147 Harsd\"{o}rffer describes how to make ``a merry wine-music'':
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\subsection{``The Four Humors''}

Harsd\"{o}rffer also describes an experiment reminiscent of Kircher's 5 glasses\footnote{See Kircher, A. (1673); \textit{Phonurgia Nova}; Kempten; (1966, Broude Brothers, NY), p. 186ff}. This passage will make much more sense if the reader has some acquaintance with the medical theory of the time of the 'four humors'.

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And so, on vol. 2, pg. 488\EnDash{}489 we find the following passage:
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\subsection{``Breaking Wine-Glasses''}

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In vol. 2, pg. 411 we find an article in which a wooden rod (like a broomstick) is supported at each end by a wine-glass, and the experimenter is striking this wooden rod in the middle. Harsd\"{o}rffer observes that the glasses break less easily when they are filled with water, but this experiment has no musical implications.

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