margo, manuel -- was it kirnberger?

--- In tuning-math@yahoogroups.com, "wallyesterpaulrus
<wallyesterpaulrus@y...>" <wallyesterpaulrus@y...> wrote:
--- In tuning-math@yahoogroups.com, "wallyesterpaulrus"
<wallyesterpaulrus@y...> wrote:
> --- In tuning-math@y..., "Gene Ward Smith" <genewardsmith@j...>
wrote:
>
> > Viking [161, -84, -12] .015361 cents
>
> this is the difference between 11 pythagorean commas and 12
syntonic
> commas. i'm going to call it "atomic" instead, unless someone comes
> up with a better name . . .

was it kirnberger who proposed foreshortening each fifth by a schisma
to approximate 12-equal? a chain of 12 such fifths would fail to
close on itself by a mere "atom", or .015361 cents . . .