Sacred Texts: The Classics

Aristotle: On The Hevens: Book II: Chapter 9

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From all this it is clear that the theory that the movement of the stars produces a harmony, i.e. that the sounds they make are concordant, in spite of the grace and originality with which it has been stated, is nevertheless untrue. Some thinkers suppose that the motion of bodies of that size must produce a noise, since on our earth the motion of bodies far inferior in size and in speed of movement has that effect.

Aristotle: On The Hevens: Book II: Chapter 9

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