Harmony of the Spheres The astronomy of the Pythagoreans marked - TopicsExpress



          

Harmony of the Spheres The astronomy of the Pythagoreans marked an important advance in ancient scientific thought, for they were the first to consider the earth as a globe revolving with the other planets around a central fire. They explained the harmonious arrangement of things as that of bodies in a single, all-inclusive sphere of reality, moving according to a numerical scheme. Because the Pythagoreans thought that the heavenly bodies are separated from one another by intervals corresponding to the harmonic lengths of strings, they held that the movement of the spheres gives rise to a musical sound-the harmony of the spheres. source: Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 2000
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 20:30:15 +0000

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