Universalis continued to be studied as part
of the Quadrivium, the mediaeval curriculum
that included arithmetic, geometry, music, and
astronomy, although more weight was now
given to the mathematical harmony of the
ratios of movement than to the idea of audible
sound. Musica Universalis finally lost ground
as a philosophical movement by the end of the
Renaissance. To find out more about the Music
of the Spheres listen to this BBC podcast where
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the influence
and history of its philosophy.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00c1fct
Modern science can easily answer Pythagoras’s
query as to why we can’t hear the vibrations
of planetary movement – sound at a frequency
humans can hear doesn’t travel in a virtual
vacuum – but it is also proving that Pythagoras
was right that the planets and the universe
create sound. We cannot “hear” most of them
directly, but by translating electromagnetic
vibrations; gamma radiation, x-rays and other
frequencies into audio signals we can listen to the
sounds of the universe.
In the YouTube video NASA Space Sounds
by ritekid we hear electromagnetic vibration
recordings and sampled sounds of the planets,
moons and rings of planets in our Solar System
taken by various of NASA’s Spacecrafts, and
the man-made compositions Song of Earth and
Voice of Earth created from the original Earth
recordings.
Embed video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmWeZHsQzs
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