The Ascent of Man (Episode 5): Music of the Spheres

Episode 5, “Music of the Spheres,” follows the birth of mathematical thinking from Pythagoras’s discovery that musical harmony is governed by simple ratios to the idea that number is the hidden language of nature. Bronowski moves from monochords and early Greek proofs to Islamic astronomy, Moorish tilings at the Alhambra, Renaissance perspective, and modern physics, showing how proofs, exact laws, and abstract operations turned mathematics into a creative art that links music, geometry, the motion of the planets, and ultimately the structure of the universe itself.​

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