Just how crazy was Pythagoras anyway?
Ouranis was the Muse of Astronomy. Pythagoras understood the Muse-ic created by the mathematical relationship between the order of the planets, and, according to Aristotle thought that the movement of these planets must produce a sound. Flash forward to Alba Mundi, the sound of the planets at http://www.pianopianoforte.com/piano_music/piano_music_english/the%20sound%20of%20the%20planets.html, if you want to hear what this music sounds like.
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See AllWe started the book talking about how the Big Bang might not have been such a Bang after all. In chapter 12 we introduced Pythagoras an his theorems, especially his understanding of "the music of the
Thanks to Scott MacDonald for sharing this YouTube video about how the rhythms of prosody derive from the dialects of a culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7cG9QIvIWo&feature=youtu.be
http://timothyquigley.net/ipa/mimesis-sorbom.pdf