Edward Frenkel
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first heard Apr 2023
last heard Apr 2023
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I look at numbers and I don't really see that
The divine.
The divine.
They clearly did.
And so, how else would you explain?
In other words, divine, of course, is a term which is mid-loaded, so it's hard to escape that.
Let's just say something more from the world of imagination and intuition than from the world of knowledge.
Let's just put it this way.
They were able to divine, okay, strike that, to intuit that the planets were not revolving, the Sun and the planets were not revolving around the Earth.
They were the first ones, at least in the Western culture, as far as I know.
And in fact, Copernicus gave credit to Pythagoreans as being his predecessors.
They did not quite have the Copernicus model with the sun in the middle.
They had what they call the central fire in the middle.
And all the planets and the sun were revolving around the central fire or hearth.
They called it hearth.
But still, what a departure from the dogma, from the knowledge of the era that the earth was at the center.
So how could they come up with this idea?
The reason was, in my opinion, that for them, the movement of celestial bodies was like music.
In fact, we call it music universalis or music of the spheres.
For them, the universe was this infinite symphony in which every being, humans, animals, as well as the Earth and other celestial bodies, were moving in harmony, like different notes of different instruments in a symphony.
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