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SPHERES, MUSIC OF THE

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 648 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SOU-STE
SPHERES, MUSIC OF THE , in 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
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 Shakespeare alludes in The
Merchant
  of Venice (Act. v. i. seq.: " such harmony is in immortal souls, but ... we cannot hear it "). According to
Gomperz
  (
Greek
  Thinkers, i. 118, Eng. trans.) " there was nothing fanciful in the Pythagorean
doctrine
  except only the belief that the
differences
  of velocity in the movements of the stars were capable of producing a harmonious orchestration and not merely sounds of varying pitch."


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