“[...]; since, again, they (the Pythagoreans) saw that the attributes and the ratios of the musical scales were expressible
in numbers; since, then, all other things seemed in their whole nature to be modeled after numbers, and numbers seemed to
be the first things in the whole of nature, they supposed the elements of numbers to be the elements of all things, and the
whole heaven to be a musical
... [Show full abstract] scale and a number.” (Aristotle Metaphysics 1, 985b 31 ff).
Polyoxometalate systems provide excellent models for the study of unusual molecular growth processes based on Mo11-type building motifs/blocks leading to unusual giant spherical and ring-shaped structures with stoichiometry Mo11
n (n = 12, 14, 16)-a Pythagorean harmony.