TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stephenson,Bruce
TI  - The Music of the Heavens: Kepler's Harmonic Astronomy
T2  - Princeton Legacy Library
SN  - 9781400863822
AV  - QB361 
U1  - 521 20
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Kepler, Johannes,
KW  - Harmonices mundi (Kepler, Johannes)
KW  - fast
KW  - Planetary theory
KW  - Théorie des planètes
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Astronomy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - History
KW  - Astronomy & Astrophysics
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Physical Sciences & Mathematics
KW  - Theoretical Astronomy
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover; Contents; --; 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
N2  - 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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