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In this rich and wide-ranging book, historians, musicians, philosophers and scientists explore the inspirational power of the idea of the harmony of the spheres through the ages, from the Greek Pythagoreans to today, in Eastern and Western cultures, as a vision of the universe and of how humans can better live in it. * Dominic J. O'Meara, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland * This collection fulfills, and exceeds, my hopes of fifty years ago: that the learned world would give serious attention to the esoteric aspects of music, not only with scholarly expertise but respecting its status as “a window into the heavenly order of things”--with all the meanings that the phrase implies. These authors wonderfully combine the two virtues. They represent many disciplines, scientific, humanistic, and creative, and show that the window has opened in cultures far beyond the Eurosphere, from prehistoric antiquity up to the latest cosmologies. Like players in an orchestra, their disparate gifts and viewpoints form a complex harmony that both delights and challenges one's expectations. * Joscelyn Godwin, author of Harmonies of Heaven and Earth: Mysticism in Music from Antiquity to the Avant-Garde (1987) *

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Ken Parry is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Department of History and Archaeology at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Depicting the Word: Byzantine Iconophile Thought of the Eighth and Ninth Centuries (1996), editor of several books including The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Patristics (2015), and founding editor (2012) of the Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity series. Dean Rickles is Professor of History and Philosophy of Modern Physics and a co-director of The Centre for Time at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is editor of The Routledge Series on Philosophy of Physics and Mathematics and author of many books, including Life is Short: An Appropriately Brief Guide to Making it More Meaningful (2022), Dual-Aspect Monism and the Deep Structure of Meaning (co-authored with Harald Atmanspacher, 2022), and Covered with Deep Mist: The Development of Quantum Gravity (2020).

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