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...From the island of Samos in the eastern Aegean Sea Pythagoras traveled to Egypt and Babylonia and returned, some two decades later with the conviction that all of creation existed in a perfect harmony of numbers. The orbits of the planets, he proposed, played musical notes, which he called tones, whose pitch was dictated both by the speed of the planet and its distance from the sun. At the time, there were five known planets, which Pythagoras postulated together played a beautiful harmony. The stars, in their positions and movements, were also believed to contribute to the cosmic song, and legend has it that Pythagoras could hear this "music of the spheres".

To the Pythagoreans, truth itself was in numbers and their relationship to each other. Mathematics was the way to unravel the universe's secrets, and the harmony of the cosmos was, simply, a manifestation of the relationships between numbers."

Stephon Alexander, "The Jazz of Physics"