Re: [tuning] margo, manuel -- was it kirnberger?

Paul asked:
>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 . . .

That I don't know, but he was at least the first to publish a temperament
with a fifth flattened by a schisma, in the 1780's. Then Prinz did so
around 1810.
Found this on http://www.kirnberger.fsnet.co.uk

Manuel