“But while an honest look at European history seemed to explain how and why harmonic principles had disappeared from Western religion, it still did not answer why science, as the presumed pillar of empirical truth in the world, did not eventually return to harmonic science as a unifying field of study. So I dug a little deeper and here is what I found.” – R Merrick

The anti-harmonic campaign

“During the run up to The Enlightenment in the late 17th and 18th centuries the ‘scientific method’ had actually been designed to discourage the study of harmonics and its corresponding natural philosophy known as musica universalis.

“I learned that the exclusion of music and pagan harmonic principles from modern science was first suggested in a letter from the astronomer Galileo to his daughter, apparently prompted by his inner conflict of faith and understandable desire to avoid torture and imprisonment by the Italian Inquisition. Continue reading →