How Pythagoras turned math into a tool for understanding reality
The ‘music of the spheres’ was born from the effort to use numbers to explain the universe
The Pythagoreans believed that the motions of the heavenly bodies, with just the right ratios of their distances from a central fire, made pleasant music — a concept that evolved into the “music of the spheres.”
NASA, ESA, the GOODS Team, and M. Giavalisco (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)/T. Tibbitts