Kepler
SINGING FROM THE SAME
HYMN SHEET?
Kepler was a famous Mathematician
and Astronomer. He attributed a
musical note to each planet and
affirmed that the angular speeds
of each heavenly body produced
sounds. According to Kepler, the
sounds would be of a higher pitch if
the movements were faster. In his
own words:
‘The Heavenly movement is a continuous song for several voices.
These voices can only be perceived
by intellect, not the hearing. This
music leaves its trace in the flow of
the time’.
The British Alchemist Robert Fludd
was very interested in the correspondence between the planets; the different parts of the
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human body; Angels and the music
itself. He thought that the Universe
was a ‘monochord’ universe where
the ten melodic ranges evoked by
Pythagoras’s theorem translated
the harmony of the creation.
The ‘gene in hermetic philosophy’,
Athansius Kircher, is well known for
his famous maxim:
‘Heaven above, Heaven below;
Stars above, Stars below; all that
is above thus below’.
He wrote an illustrated book titled
‘Musurgia Universalis’ where he
explained music as a reflection of
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