Professor of Music at Colgate University and a widely respected musicologist, Godwin traces the history of the idea, held since ancient times, that the whole cosmos, with its circling planets and stars, is in some way a musical or harmonious entity. The author shows how this concept has continued to inspire philosophers, astronomers, and mystics from antiquity to the present day. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K18oDwAAQBAJ&dq=godwin,+joscelyn&source=gbs_navlinks_s]