Tuning of bells. Does anyone on the list know anything about the maths of bell tuning?

As you prolly already know I have been researching the writings of John 'Longitude' Harrison for the past twenty odd years..

I have unearthed his "lost" manuscript, and have transcribed it.

I am hoping to get a letter or article published in New Scientist soon, asking the scientific community to look at what he wrote and attempt to understand it.

I have puzzled over the meaning and significance of his radical numbers for about a year now and seem to be getting nowhere with it.

Maybe someone on this list has some insight that I have missed

My letter/article will direct them to this url:

http://www.lucytune.com/radnums.html

where I have put the transcription.

It seems that this recipe using radical numbers is to get the bells to sound the meantone tuning that he proposed derived from pi.

Charles Lucy - lucy@harmonics.com
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--- In tuning-math@yahoogroups.com, Charles Lucy <lucy@h...> wrote:

> It seems that this recipe using radical numbers is to get the bells to
> sound the meantone tuning that he proposed derived from pi.

I don't see how he would get to pi by taking square roots.