Prior to The Age of Reason in the latter half of the 18th century, the principles of music harmony were used to explain the dualities found in Nature. Philolaus, a “most ancient” follower of Pythagoras, referred to this in the opening of his book Peri physeos, or On Nature:

“Nature in the cosmos is composed of a harmonia between the unlimited and the limited and so too is the whole cosmos and everything in it.” Read More...

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