Attached Link: http://home22.inet.tele.dk/hightower/spheres.htm

The link attached is a good account of the history of the "music of the spheres" or harmony, its roots in Pythagorean thought... no Illuminati were involved. ;) A few Greeks, though. this one is also a good page about the development of Heliocentric theory. http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Heliocentric.html