Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: Ancient and Medieval Sources -- 1 Eight Singing Sirens: Heavenly Harmonies in Plato and the Neoplatonists -- 2 Harmonic and Acoustic theory: Latin and Arabic Ideas of Sympathetic Vibration as the Causes of Effects between Heaven and Earth -- 3 Theory of Heavenly Harmony and Angelic Song in Jewish and Islamic Sources -- 4 Medieval Variations on a Cosmic Theme -- 5 'Therout com so gret a noyse': The Harmony of the Spheres and Chaucerian Poetics -- PART II: The Revival of the Doctrine of the Pythagorean Harmony of the Universe in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Italy and Germany -- 6 Cosmic Harmony, Demons, and the Mnemonic Power of Music in Renaissance Florence: The Case of Marsilio Ficino -- 7 Francesco Giorgi on the Harmony of Creation and the Catholic Censorship of His Views -- 8 Francesco Patrizi and the 'Weakest Echo of the Harmony of the Spheres' -- 9 The Reception of Ficino's Theory of World Harmony in Germany -- PART III: The Tradition of the Harmony of the Spheres in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Europe and New Spain -- 10 Andrea Torelli and His Orphic Lyre -- 11 Cosmic Play in a Symbolic Harmonic Universe: the Reception of Cusanus and Kircher in Seventeenth-Century New Spain -- 12 The Harmony of the Spheres in English Musical Mathematics, 1650-1750 -- 13 William Stukeley's 'Music of the Spheres' Manuscript: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Newtonianism, c. 1720 -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index