The Music of the Spheres is Episode 5 in The Ascent of Man, a 13-part BBC documentary series presented by Dr. Jacob Bronowski. This episode explores the historical evolution of mathematics and its profound relationship with art, music, and science. Bronowski traces Greek mathematical ideas through their refinement in Islamic culture and their revival in Renaissance Europe. He draws connections between mathematics and musical harmony, perspective in painting, early astronomy, and even biology—culminating in a computer visualization of DNA's molecular structure as an embodiment of nature's geometric order.