Philolaus of Croton: Pythagorean philosophy, cosmology, and musicology.

lecture on Philolaus the late Pythagorean philosopher who Plato credits with providing the mathematical description of the Dorian scale in "Pythagorean tuning" which, according to Plato's "Timaeus", was used to construct the world soul.

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