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The harmony of the spheres

September 19, 2009

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Ancients believed that planets moved according fixed ratios as musical notes do: the pure mute music planets emitted was called “music of the spheres”. Plato mentions the music of the spheres in the last book of the Republic, when he talks about Er, when he describes Ananke’s spindle. Each of the sirens of the eight circles [...]