Just had a discussion with someone and it seems that no-one's picking up on=
the connection so this is me pointing it out:
Because the Pythagoreans thought that the heavenly bodies are separated fro=
m 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 "universal harmony of the spheres."
Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia 2000
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Pythagoras harmony of the spheres
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On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Pall Thayer wrote:
> Just had a discussion with someone and it seems that no-one's picking up on the connection so this is me pointing it out:
If the artist has to explain_ the artwork, it's not doing its job.
> 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 "universal harmony of the spheres."
Just because you want_ to fantasize about 'connections'
it doesn't mean there are there.
And by the way, Pythagoras was also a member of a 'cult'
in which thinking was not popular :)
O, but you don't teach that in your 'sub-mediocre' school, do you?
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