music of the spheres

Noun

Meaning

an inaudible music that Pythagoras thought was produced by the celestial

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Examples

Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above. Richard Henry Stoddard

There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres. Lord Byron

We can set our deeds to the music of a grateful heart, and seek to round our lives into a hymn - the melody of which will be recognized by all who come in contact with us, and the power of which shall not be evanescent, like the voice of the singer, but perennial, like the music of the spheres. William Mackergo Taylor

He rejected the idea of " music of the spheres " as ridiculous: movement of astronomical bodies, he supposed, is incapable of generating sound. Source: Internet

Ptolemy's astronomical interests also appeared in a discussion of the music of the spheres. Source: Internet

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