Paper, 'The theory of musick reduced to mathematicks' by Tho [Thomas] Salmon Attempts to fix the mathematical foundations of the theory of music relating intervals in mathematical proportions, following a musical experiment tried before the Royal Society at Gresham College. Subject: Mathematics Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'The theory of musick reduced to arithmetical and geometrical proportions'. Read to the Royal Society on 3 July 1705. [1705]