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From Rhizome Artbase

"Fly me to the Moon" is an attempt to recreate the music of the spheres.
In 1618 Johannes Kepler completed a motet, successfully re-creating the harmonious chord calculated from the ratios of the planets' orbits to the sun.
In 1852 the painter Hermann Goldschmidt made the first of his fourteen asteroid discoveries from a small room in a caf