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Rh the heaven of the fixed stars, which revolves in twenty-four hours. Saturn, of course, comes next; for, though it has a slow motion of its own in a contrary direction, that is "mastered" (κρατεῖται) by the diurnal revolution. The other view, which gives the highest note to the Moon and the lowest to the fixed stars, is probably due to the theory which substituted an axial rotation of the earth for the diurnal revolution of the heavens.

153. We have still to consider a view, which Aristotle sometimes attributes to the Pythagoreans, that things were "like numbers." He does not appear to regard this as inconsistent with the doctrine that things are numbers, though it is hard to see how he could reconcile the two. There is no doubt, however, that Aristoxenos represented the Pythagoreans as teaching that things were like numbers, and there are other traces of an attempt to make out that this was the original doctrine. A letter was produced,