Music of the heavens: Kepler's harmonic astronomy

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 characte...

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Autor principal: Stephenson, Bruce
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: Princeton University Press 2014
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Astrophysics and Astronomy
Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/2105381
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description 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 of Kepler'
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title Music of the heavens: Kepler's harmonic astronomy
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