Music Of The Spheres
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MUSIC OF THE SPHERES, in Pythagorean philosophy, the harmony produced by the heavenly bodies in their orbits, inaudible to human ears.
The central set of "harmonies" was the musica universalis or "music of the spheres," which had been studied by Pythagoras, Ptolemy and many others before Kepler; in fact, soon after publishing Harmonices Mundi, ...
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Ptolemy's astronomical interests also appeared in a discussion of the music of the spheres.
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The ancient philosophers imagined the universe to resemble a complex clockwork consisting of concentric crystalline spheres, nested inside one another, which carried the sun, moon, and planets in their motions and made the "music of the spheres" as ...
JAMES C. WHITE II is ASP staff astronomer and editor of Mercury magazine. His research concerns cataclysmic variables, and his passions are writing and trying to hear the music of the spheres.
Kollerstrom, Nicholas, Kepler's Belief in Astrology
References for Johannes Kepler
Plant, David, Kepler and the "Music of the Spheres"
Calderón Urreiztieta, Carlos. Harmonice Mundi Â- Animated and multimedia version of Book V ...
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