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Prodromus dissertationum cosmographicarum, continens Mysterium cosmographicum de admirabili proportione orbium coelestium, deque causis coelorum numeri, magnitudinis, motuumque periodicorum genuinis & propriis, demonstratum per quinque regularia corpora geometrica - Description
- Published at Frankfurt by Erasmus Kempfer, this volume contains the second edition of the astronomical work, Mysterium Cosmographicum (originally published in 1596) by Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), along with copious notes by Kepler himself. The Mysterius Cosmographicum was the first published defense of the Copernican heliocentric system. It was in this work that Kepler believed he had uncovered God’s geometrical plan for the universe – he proposed a model of the solar system using nested Platonic solids. The page displayed illustrates his distinctive model of the universe.
- Call Number (click link to view in library catalog)
- Q. 521.3 K44p1621
- Authors
- Kepler, Johannes
- Full Title
- Mysterium cosmographicum
- Date
- anno 1621
- Publisher
- Recusus typis Erasmi Kempferi, sumptibus Godefridi Tampachij
- Location
- Francofurti
- Language
- Latin
- Rights
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- Text
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- Book
- Bibliographic Citation
- Kepler, Johannes, Erasmus Kempfer, Gottfried Tambach, Georg Joachim Rhäticus, and Johannes Kepler. Prodromus dissertationum cosmographicarum, continens Mysterium cosmographicum de admirabili proportione orbium coelestium, deque causis coelorum numeri, magnitudinis, motuumque periodicorum genuinis & propriis, demonstratum per quinque regularia corpora geometrica : libellus primumb Tübingae in lucem datus anno Christi M.DXCVI. Francofurti: Recusus typis Erasmi Kempferi, sumptibus Godefridi Tampachij, 1621.