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- Title
- Ioannis Keppleri Harmonices mundi libri v
- Description
- This volume is a first edition of Johannes Kepler’s Harmonices Mundi, printed by Johannes Plancus at Linz (Austria) in 1619. In this work, Kepler explains his vision of harmony and congruence in geometrical forms and in the physical world. This vision of harmony focuses upon his conception of musica universalis – the “music of the spheres,” which had been studied by earlier astronomers (including Ptolemy). He also details his discovery of the Third Law of planetary motion. The pages displayed include a lengthy quotation from Proclus and a marginal note indicating that Kepler considered Plato’s Timaeus as a commentary on the biblical book of Genesis.
- Call Number (click link to view in library catalog)
- IUQ03582
- Authors
- Kepler, Johannes
- Full Title
- Ioannis Keppleri Harmonices mundi libri v : quorum primus geometricus, de figurarum regularium, quae proportiones harmonicas constituunt, ortu & demonstrationibus : secundus architectonicus, seu ex geometria figurata, de figurarum regularium congruentia in plano vel solido : tertius propriè harmonicus, de proportionum harmonicarum ortu ex figuris, deque naturâ & differentiis rerum ad cantum pertinentium, contra veteres : quartus metaphysicus, psychologicus & astrologicus, de harmoniarum mentali essentiâ earumque generibus in mundo, praesertim de harmonia radiorum, ex corporibus coelestibus in terram descendentibus, eiusque effectu in natura seu anima sublunari & humana : quintus astronomicus & metaphysicus, de harmoniis absolutissimis motuum coelestium, ortuque eccentricitatum ex proportionibus harmonicis : appendix habet comparationem huius operis cum Harmonices Cl. Ptolemaei libro III. cumque Roberti de Fluctibus, dicti Flud., medici oxoniensis, speculationibus harmonicis, operi de Macrocosmo & microcosmo insertis.
- Date
- bibl Francof anno 1619
- Publisher
- Sumptibus Godofredi Tampachii
- Location
- Lincii Austriae [Linz]
- Language
- Latin
- Rights
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- Bibliographic Citation
- Kepler, Johannes, Ptolemy, and Robert Fludd. Ioannis Keppleri Harmonices mundi libri v : quorum primus geometricus, de figurarum regularium, quae proportiones harmonicas constituunt, ortu & demonstrationibus : secundus architectonicus, seu ex geometria figurata, de figurarum regularium congruentia in plano vel solido : tertius propriè harmonicus, de proportionum harmonicarum ortu ex figuris, deque naturâ & differentiis rerum ad cantum pertinentium, contra veteres : quartus metaphysicus, psychologicus & astrologicus, de harmoniarum mentali essentiâ earumque generibus in mundo, praesertim de harmonia radiorum, ex corporibus coelestibus in terram descendentibus, eiusque effectu in natura seu anima sublunari & humana : quintus astronomicus & metaphysicus, de harmoniis absolutissimis motuum coelestium, ortuque eccentricitatum ex proportionibus harmonicis : appendix habet comparationem huius operis cum Harmonices Cl. Ptolemaei libro III. cumque Roberti de Fluctibus, dicti Flud., medici oxoniensis, speculationibus harmonicis, operi de Macrocosmo & microcosmo insertis. Lincii Austriae [Linz: Sumptibus Godofredi Tampachii, bibl. Francof., 1619.