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“This careful analysis of sources and previous interpretations critiques the view that Newton took literally the ‘harmony of the spheres’ theory based on full-bore Pythagoreanism. Instead, in an account written with the excitement of a detective mystery, the author shows that Newton drew on other kinds of mathematical reasoning, plus empiricism and mechanism, offering a fresh explanation for the cluster of ideas involved.”