Book:Johannes Kepler/Harmonices Mundi
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Johannes Kepler: Harmonices Mundi
Published $\text {1619}$
In English:
- The Harmonies of the World
Subject Matter
Contents
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Notable Quotes
- Since the first light dawned eight months ago, since broad daylight came three months ago, and since the sun of my wonderful discovery shone fully only a very few days ago, nothing holds me back ... The die is cast, and I am writing the book -- whether to be read by my contemporaries or by posterity matters not. It may be that my book will wait a hundred years for a reader; but has not God waited six thousand years for a proper observer of His handiwork?
- -- from the Preface
Critical View
- A few pages of great science and an overwhelming, luxuriant growth of mystical fantasy.
Sources
- 1992: George F. Simmons: Calculus Gems ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $\text {A}.10$: Kepler ($\text {1571}$ – $\text {1630}$)
- 2008: Ian Stewart: Taming the Infinite ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $8$: The System of the World: Kepler