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• Archytas

  sense-experience in the Timaeus (67b, 80a ), Plato appears to rely on Archytas to explain hearing and sound (where again the speed of the propagation of sound is confused with frequency: higher notes are said to reach the earmore quickly than lower notes). In his treatment of harmonics proper, Archytas further developed Pythagoreanmusical theory (see Philolaus §5 ). He calculated the numerical ratios of the intervals in all three scales of the tetrachord (diatonic, chromatic and e...

• Archytas