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