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... bodies so huge as these and moving with so great a speed must produce a sound . Arguing so , and from the observation that their speeds , as measured by their distances , are in the same ratios as the concords of the musical scale ...
... bodies so huge as these and moving with so great a speed must produce a sound . Arguing so , and from the observation that their speeds , as measured by their distances , are in the same ratios as the concords of the musical scale ...
Page 98
... bodies had taken up their stations apart from one another , the world embraced the whole order now seen in it . ' Diodorus cites as parallel the famous lines of Euripides ' Melanippe : " The tale is not mine — I had it from my mother ...
... bodies had taken up their stations apart from one another , the world embraced the whole order now seen in it . ' Diodorus cites as parallel the famous lines of Euripides ' Melanippe : " The tale is not mine — I had it from my mother ...
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... bodies . There is a long description of the constellations . Here we have , in its oldest known form , the lifting - up of the starry heaven from the earth followed by the ordering of the stars and of the provinces in the cosmos . We ...
... bodies . There is a long description of the constellations . Here we have , in its oldest known form , the lifting - up of the starry heaven from the earth followed by the ordering of the stars and of the provinces in the cosmos . We ...
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The Harmony of the Spheres 1930 | 14 |
The Unwritten Philosophy 1935 | 31 |
Platos Commonwealth 1935 | 47 |
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