| John Aikin - Biography - 1813 - 720 pages
...intervals by accurate divisions,) has been ascribed to him both by ancient and modern writers. Pythagoras conceived that the celestial spheres in which the planets move, striking upon the aether through which they pass, must produce a sound ; and that this sound must vary according to the... | |
| John Mason Good - Natural history - 1826 - 536 pages
...of having applied the principles of music, as well as those of numbers, to the study of physics. He conceived that the celestial spheres, in which the planets move, striking upon the elastic ether through which they pass, must produce a sound, and a sound that must vary according to... | |
| sir William Cathcart Boyd - 1843 - 444 pages
...science led him to the discovery of musical ratios by meditation and design. This philosopher imagine^ that the celestial spheres, in which the planets move,...upon the ether through which they pass, must produce sound ; and that such sound would vary according to the diversity of their magnitude, velocity, and... | |
| George Henry Lewes - Philosophers - 1845 - 258 pages
...monochord, he concluded that in passing through the ether they must make a sound, and that this sound would vary according to the diversity of their magnitude. velocity, and relative distance. Saturn gave the deepest tone, as being the farthest from the earth ; the Moon gave the shrillest, as... | |
| Hugh James Rose - Biography - 1848 - 572 pages
...hnrmonical canon, or monochord, has been ascribed to Pythagoras both by ancient and modern writers. He conceived that the celestial spheres in which the...relative distance. Taking it for granted that every tiling respecting; the heavenly bodies is adjusted with perfect regularity, he further imagined that... | |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero, Cornelius Nepos - Conduct of life - 1850 - 396 pages
...regular order." We have here the famous Pythagorean doctrine of the music of the spheres. Pythagoras conceived that the celestial spheres, in which the...must produce a sound, and that this sound must vary Bccording to the diversity of their magnitudes, velocity, and relative distance. Taking it for granted... | |
| Electronic journals - 1857 - 692 pages
..." Madame De StaeTs " seven chords of the lyre " does not express his theory as to the distances. He conceived that the " celestial spheres " in which...'which they pass, must produce a sound ; and that this must vary according to the diversity of their magnitude, velocity, and relative distances ; and therefore... | |
| George Henry Lewes - Philosophers - 1857 - 846 pages
...monochord, he coneluded that in passing through the ether they most make a sound, and that this sound would vary according to the diversity of their magnitude, velocity, and relative distance. Saturn gave the deepest tone, as being the furthest from the earth ; the Moon gave the shrillest, as... | |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1858 - 372 pages
...the famous Pythagorean doctrine of the music of the spheres. Pythagoras conceived that the celeslial spheres, in which the planets move, striking upon...sound must vary according to the diversity of their magnitudes, velocity, and relative distance. Taking it for granted that every thing respecting the... | |
| John Williams (of Lancaster, O.) - English language - 1860 - 410 pages
...perfection of nature." Anthon. Pythagoras also taught the doctrine of "the music of the spheres." "He conceived that the celestial spheres in which the...and relative distance. Taking it for granted that everything respecting the heavenly bodies is adjusted with perfect regularity, he further imagined... | |
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