The Music of the Heavens : Kepler's Harmonic Astronomy.

By:

Stephenson, Bruce

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TextSeries: Princeton legacy libraryPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.Description: 1 online resource (273 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9781400863822
1400863821

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Music of the Heavens : Kepler's Harmonic Astronomy.DDC classification:

521 20

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QB361

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-- 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.

Summary: 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.

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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 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.

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