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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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • -- Preface and Ackowledgments
  • CHAPTER I. Introduction
  • CHAPTER II. Earlier Theories of Astronomical Harmony
  • CHAPTER III. Jofrancus Offusius: Scientific Astrology Based on Harmony
  • CHAPTER IV. Distances to the Planets
  • CHAPTER V. The Polyhedral Theory of the Mysterium cosmographicum
  • CHAPTER VI. Kepler's First Harmonic Planetary Theory
  • CHAPTER VII. The Reconstruction of Ptolemy's Harmonics
  • CHAPTER VIII. The Harmonice mundi
  • CHAPTER IX. Book 5 of the Harmonice mundi
  • CHAPTER X. Conclusions
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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