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his scientific explanation of all the phenomena until 1659. (Galileo had 

 on'y thought that he saw on either side of the planet two detached, circular 

 disks.) 



C 509 ) r>. 305. Kosmos, Bd. i. S. 95 ; Engl. ed. p. 82. Compare also 

 Encke in Schumacher's Astr. Nachr. Bd. xxvi. 1848, No. 622, S. 34?. 



( 51 ) p. 315. Bockh de Platonico syst. p. xxiv., and in his Philolaos, 

 S. 100. The crder of arrangement of the planets, which, as we have 

 just seen (Note 51 ), gave occasion to the planetary appellations of the days 

 of the week, and which was that of Geminus, is distinctly called by Ptolemy 

 (Almag. xi. cap. 1) the most ancient. He blames the motives which had 

 led " more recent" writers to " place Venus and Mercury beyond the Sun." 

 ( 5U ) p. 315. The Pythagoreans defended the belief in the reality of the 

 production of musical sounds by the revolution of the spheres, by asserting 

 that we hear only when there is alternation of sound and of silence. (Aristot. 

 de Coelo, ii. 9, pag. 290, No. 2430, Bekker.) The music of the spheres is 

 also said to remain unheard by reason of a deafening effect. (Cicero de rep. 

 vi. 18.) Aristotle himself terms the Pythagorean myth on this subject, 

 pleasing and ingenious, /eo/xijws KO.I irepirr&s), but untrue (1. c. No. 12 15). 

 ( 512 ) p. 315. Bockh, in the Philolaos, S. 90. 



( 5U ) p. 316. Plato de republica, x. p. 61?. He estimates the distances of 

 the planets according to two entirely different progressions one duplicate, 

 the other triplicate whence there arises the series 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 8, 27. It 

 is the same series which is found in the Timseus (p. 35, Steph.), in specula- 

 tions relative to the arithmetical division of the soul of the Universe which 

 the Demiurgus undertakes. Plato has considered the two geometrical 

 progressions 1 . . 2 . . 4 . . 8 and 1 . . 3 . . 9 . . 27 conjointly, taking 

 each successive number alternately from either series ; whence, as above, 

 1..2..3..4..9. Compare Bockh in the " Studien von Daub und 

 Creuzer," Bd. Hi. S. 3443; Martin, E'tudes sur le Timee, T. i. p. 384, 

 and T. ii. p. 64. Compare also Prevost " sur 1'ame d'apres Platon," in the 

 Mem. de 1'Acad. de Berlin pour 1802, p. 90 and 97 ; and the same writer 

 in the Bibliotheque britannique, Sciences et Arts, T. xxxvii. 1808, p. 153. 



( 514 ) p. 316. See the ingenious treatise of Professor Ferdinand Piper, 

 entitled "Von der Harmonic der Spharen," 1850, S. 12 18. The younger 

 Ideler has treated in detail, and with much learned criticism, the subject of 

 the supposed relation of the seven vowels of the ancient Egyptian language 

 to the seven planets; and Gustav Seyffarth's ideas (refuted even by the 

 researches of Zoega and Tolke) respecting supposed astrological vowel-filled 

 hymns of the Egyptian priests, discussing them in connection with passages 



