The Music of the Spheres: Music, Science, and the Natural Order of the Universe Laurie Hernandez A deadly and unprecedented virus

A deadly and unprecedented virus is spreading

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The Lady Orlando takes this circumstance in stride

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The Music of the Spheres: Music, Science, and the Natural Order of the Universe Laurie Hernandez A deadly and unprecedented virusThe parallel histories of music and science from celestial harmony to cosmic dissonance. For centuries, scientists and philosophers believed that the universe was a stately, ordered mechanism, mathematical and musical. The perceived distances between objects in the sky mirrored (and were mirrored by) the spaces between notes that formed chords and scales. The smooth operation of the cosmos created a divine harmony that composers sought to capture.