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Article: The Music of the Spheres: Music, Science, and the Natural Order of the Universe.
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- December 1, 1994
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If enthusiasm and stylistic flair were enough to make a good book, this would be an outstanding one. Unfortunately, in the case of The Music of the Spheres, Jamie James has let a passion for his subject matter run well ahead of his grasp of it; add to that authorial and editorial carelessness, and the sum total is a well-told story that all too frequently mishandles the history (and even science) that we are sure of as fact.
The story James tells is about music's place in Western culture, of the exalted position it held for two thousand years among the sciences as an audible, tangible metaphor of the principles that guide the operation of the universe; and of its ...
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