[ **up: [[History]] | [[Mathematics]]** ] --- # Mathematics – History ### China [[2024-0415. In early imperial China, there was an idea that measuring sound, like computing a calendar, could result in natural disasters and social unrest if miscalculated.|In early imperial China, there was an idea that measuring sound, like computing a calendar, could result in natural disasters and social unrest if miscalculated.]][^1] [^1]: Noa Hegesh, ‘[[Hegesh. ‘Mind the Gap_ Acoustical Answers to Cosmological Concerns in First-Century B.C.E. China’, 2021.|Mind the Gap: Acoustical Answers to Cosmological Concerns in First-Century B.C.E. China]]’, *Isis*, vol. 112, no. 4 (2 December 2021), p. 649.