The History of Experimental Aesthetics
a preliminary chronology

32,000 BC: The canon of Lespugues, anticipation of Vincenzo (bottom up?) CH-1
3,000 BC: The bethels of Scotland, anticipation of Pythagoras CH-2
500 BC: Pythagoras, numerical aesthetics (for music and geometry) CH-2
400 BC: Plato, beauty, morals, the good (top down), polygons, polyhedra CH-2
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1588 AD: Vincenzo Galilei (ca. 1525 - 1591), musician, student of Zarlino
	father of Galileo, experiments on musical intervals
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1860: Gustav Fechner publ Elements of Psychophysics, 
	founds first branch of exp psych (cf Berlyne, p. 11)
1865: Fechner exp on golden rectangles (cf Livio)
1871: Fechner exp on aesthetics of two versions of Holbein's Madonna
1876: Fechner publ Elementary Aesthetics, founds second branch
1933: Birkhoff, M = O/C (aesthetic measure = order/complexity)
1936: Davis, tests Birkhoff's theory
1938: Rashevsky, connects aesthetics with neurophysiology
1996: Aks and Sprott, exp on aesthetics and complexity 
	(chaotic attractors of 3D maps)
2001: Fred Abraham, Sprott, others CH-6

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