See also:Pythagorean philosophy, the harmony produced by the heavenly bodies in their orbits, inaudible to human ears . Pythagoras (cf . 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.) . 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 ") . According to
See also:Gomperz (Greek Thinkers, i .
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