Quote: Pythagoras discovered that chords are pleasant when in ratios of small integers; first numerical relationship in nature outside of geometry

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Pythagoras is said to have discovered the fact … give an effect that is pleasant to the … the lengths are as one is to two, … three, they correspond to the interval between C … Pythagoras' discovery was the first example, outside geometry, … there was a fact of nature that involved …   Google-1   Google-2

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