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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 648 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SPHERES, See also:MUSIC OF THE , in See also:Pythagorean See also:philosophy, the See also:harmony produced by the heavenly bodies in their orbits, inaudible to human ears. See also: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 See also: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 See also:Venice (See also:Act. v. i. seq.: " such harmony is in immortal souls, but ... we cannot hear it "). According to See also:Gomperz (See also:Greek Thinkers, i.

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