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The margins of Kepler’s Harmonice Mundi contain numerous snatches of musical notation (he had read, and profited from, a book on music by Galileo’s father). For Kepler, harmony was “geometrical proportions which he finds reflected everywhere, the archetypes of universal order, from which the planetary laws, the harmonies of music, the drift of the weather, and the fortunes of man are derived.
