- Hardcover: 592 pages
- Publisher: American Philosophical Society (Dec 1 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0871692090
- ISBN-13: 978-0871692092
- Product Dimensions: 25.9 x 18.7 x 4.1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 Kg
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #533,311 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Johanne Kepler's "Harmonice mundi" was planned in 1599 as a sequel to the "Mysterium cosmographicum." In 1618 Kepler discovered the third law of planetary motion relating to the periodic times of the planets to their mean distances from the sun - a crowning achievement that enabled him to bring the "Harmonice mundi" to completeion. The authors have presented and interpreted Kepler's Latin text to readers of English, by putting it into "the kind of clear but earnest language which we suppose Kepler would have used if he had been writing today."
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Kepler vs. Aristotle, Aug 30 2008
By Mike Vander Nat - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Harmony of the World by Johannes Kepler: Translated Into English with an Introduction and Notes (Hardcover)
This book is a thorough going treatment of the subject of Harmony. It contradicts Aristotle, who held science back for centuries because of his witting fraud upon the discoveries of Pythagoras, Thales, et al. Aristotle misrepresented the ideas concerning Music, Harmonics, Geometry as well as Astronomy, which Plato described in the Epinomis to be the fount of all knowledge. In this volume, Kepler proves that the pre-Aristotelean hypothesis of a helio-centric universe is correct, and provides the needed data to demonstrate that the planets arrange their orbits around the sun in the manner of a musical scale. Here one can understand the deeper meaning of Harmony, beyond what we hear in music. Kepler seeks out causes, in the musical domain, as well as in the astrophysical domain. Up to the time of this book, no one had solved the puzzle. This book is a work of genius.
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Fantastic Quality book, May 24 2010
By D. J. Paz - Published on Amazon.com
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The binding is held together very firmly and the translator's notes range from helpful to fascinating. This book is a "no brainer" must buy for students of 17th century German astronomy.
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Kepler's revolution in astronomy, Dec 30 2009
By Roger Ham - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: The Harmony of the World by Johannes Kepler: Translated Into English with an Introduction and Notes (Hardcover)
Today's scientists of all disciplines would do well to study Kepler's original work. This is not only a seminal work in the history of astronomy, but a case study in the creative process of discovery. By rejecting empiricism and sense certainty, Kepler used his mental instruments, geometry and music, to investigate the harmony which orders all fundamental physical processes. The same mental processes which make humans unique must be coherent with the principles of creation and development of the universe as a whole.
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