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...concept of Matter preceded his concept of Space. Euclid's geometry was purely concerned with the relative position of concrete bodies, without reference to any continuum through which they moved. Not until Descartes (1596-1650) invented analytical geometry was absolute, continuous Space conceived...
...continuum of events,' says Einstein, 'exists as a background for phenomena, and when happenings occur in any region whatsoever the events are there ready to give forth their testimony'--but all to no avail if there are no minds there ready to receive the testimony and add it to the individual continuum...
...PITCH.The basis of music is the sensation of pitch. This is a generic sensation, like color, consisting of many elements which taken together form a continuous series between two extremes. With this continuum the spatial ideas of height and depth have come to be associated, for reasons derived both from the nature of the sensation and the conditions of its production at the two extremes. The sequence of different pitches presents itself to the mind as a movement, and especially through these associations as a movement up or down in space. This is an important source of musical expressiveness...