The Music of the Heavens : Kepler's Harmonic Astronomy

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Valued today for its development of the third law of planetary motion, Harmonice mundi (1619) was intended by Kepler to expand on ancient efforts to discern a Creator's plan for the planetary system--an arrangement thought to be based on harmonic relationships. Challenging critics who character...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Stephenson, Bruce
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Kepler, Johannes, > 1571-1630. > Harmonices mundi.
Harmonices mundi (Kepler, Johannes)
Planetary theory.
SCIENCE > History.
SCIENCE > Astronomy.
Theorie des planetes.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Valued today for its development of the third law of planetary motion, Harmonice mundi (1619) was intended by Kepler to expand on ancient efforts to discern a Creator's plan for the planetary system--an arrangement thought to be based on harmonic relationships. Challenging critics who characterize Kepler's theories of harmonic astronomy as ""mystical, "" Bruce Stephenson offers the first thorough technical analysis of the music the astronomer thought the heavens made, and the logic that led him to find musical patterns in his data. In so doing, Stephenson illuminates crucial aspects o
Notas:Cover; Contents.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (272 pages).
ISBN:9781400863822

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