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	In Plato’s The Republic the world as a whole is described as a kind of sounding machine

they saw there at the middle of the light the extremities of its fastenings stretched from heaven; for this light was the girdle of the heavens […], holding together in like manner the entire revolving vault. And from the extremities was stretched the spindle of Necessity, through which all the orbits turned. Its staff and its hook were made of adamant, and the whorl of these and other kinds was commingled.

　

And the spindle turned on the knees of Necessity,
and up above on each of the rims of the circles a Siren stood, borne around in its revolution and uttering one sound, one note, and from all the eight there was the concord of a single harmony. And there were other three who sat round about at equal intervals, each one on her throne […], Lachesis, and Clotho, and Atropos, who sang in unison with the music of the Sirens, Lachesis singing the things that were, Clotho the things that are, and Atropos the things that are to be.

Platon: The Republic, Book X, 616C-617C, transl. Paul Shorey

	The thought of the music of the spheres, which is seen in this text, seems to be almost identical to the teaching of the Pythagorean school. H. G.
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The thought of the music of the spheres, which is seen in this text, seems to be almost identical to the teaching of the Pythagorean school.

H. G.

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