L’eredità pitagorica nella costruzione della Natura. Alcune considerazioni critiche attorno a un’idea filosofica mai tramontata

I examine some of the meanings of the concept of harmony and its use in relation to the idea of nature. The historical analysis allows us to advance an hypothesis: many theoretical and experimental arguments seem to disprove the existence of a universal harmony; however, the “social imaginary” from which this idea takes movement has an important role in the “intellectual construction” of nature.