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MUSIC OF THE SPHERES

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 648 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MUSIC OF THE
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SPHERES  , in
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Pythagorean
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philosophy, the
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harmony produced by the heavenly bodies in their orbits, inaudible to human ears .
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Pythagoras (cf . Arist. de .Caelo, ii. g) held that the movements of stars were governed' by fixed
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laws which could be expressed in
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numbers according to the numbers which give the harmony of sounds (see PYTHAGORAS, ad fin.) . It is this theory to which
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Shakespeare alludes in The
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Merchant of
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Venice (
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Act. v. i. seq.: " such harmony is in immortal souls, but ... we cannot hear it ") . According to
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Gomperz (
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Greek Thinkers, i .

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