Fifth Hammer
How the ordering of the sensible world continues to suggest a reality that no notes or letters can fully transcribe.An ancient tradition holds that Pythagoras discovered the secrets of harmony within…
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How the ordering of the sensible world continues to suggest a reality that no notes or letters can fully transcribe.An ancient tradition holds that Pythagoras discovered the secrets of harmony within a forge when he came across five men hammering with five hammers, producing a wondrous sound. Four of the five hammers stood in a marvelous set of proportions, harmonizing; but there was also a fifth hammer. Pythagoras saw and heard it, but he could not measure it; nor could he understand its discordant sound. Pythagoras therefore discarded it. What was this hammer, such that Pythagoras chose so decidedly to reject it?Since antiquity, "harmony" has been a name for more than a theory of musical sounds; it has offered a paradigm for the scientific understanding of the natural world. Nature, through harmony, has been transcribed in the ideal signs of mathematics. But,