I'm reading a book called "Temperament: How Music Became A Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization," by Stuart Isacoff. It's about, I kid you not, how systems of tuning musical instruments became the basis for major struggles in religion, philosophy, science, and economics.
It starts with Isaac Newton and his theory of gravity, which "enabled him to declare the universe a place in which all things embrace each other, even across the vast distances of space."
What a lovely view of things; I can't add anything to that.
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