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New to Penguin Classics, the astonishing story of the Copernican
Revolution, told through the words of the ground-breaking
scientists who brought it about In the late fifteenth century, it
was believed that the earth stood motionless at the centre of a
small, ordered cosmos. Just over two centuries later, everything
had changed. Not only was the sun the centre of creation, but the
entire practice of science had been revolutionised. This is the
story of that astonishing transformation, told through the words of
the astronomers and mathematicians at its heart. Bringing together
excerpts from the works and letters of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler,
Descartes, Newton and others for the first time, The Dawn of Modern
Cosmology is the definitive record of one of the great turning
points in human history. Edited with Translations, Notes and an
Introduction by Aviva Rothman
The brilliant German mathematician Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), one
of the founders of modern astronomy, revolutionized the Copernican
heliocentric theory of the universe with his three laws of motion:
that the planets move not in circular but elliptical orbits, that
their speed is greatest when nearest the sun, and that the sun and
planets form an integrated system. This volume contains two of his
most important works: The Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (books 4
and 5 of which are translated here) is a textbook of Copernican
science, remarkable for the prominence given to physical astronomy
and for the extension to the Jovian system of the laws recently
discovered to regulate the motions of the Planets. Harmonies of the
World (book 5 of which is translated here) expounds an elaborate
system of celestial harmonies depending on the varying velocities
of the planets.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Johanne Kepler's "Harmonice mundi" was planned in 1599 as a sequel
to the "Mysterium cosmographicum." In 1618 Kepler discovered the
third law of planetary motion relating to the periodic times of the
planets to their mean distances from the sun - a crowning
achievement that enabled him to bring the "Harmonice mundi" to
completeion. The authors have presented and interpreted Kepler's
Latin text to readers of English, by putting it into "the kind of
clear but earnest language which we suppose Kepler would have used
if he had been writing today."
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Johannes Kepler
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Kepler's essay, On the Six-Cornered Snowflake, provides the first
published evidence of the ideas of regular arrangements and
close-packing which have proved fundamental to crystallography. In
it, Kepler ponders on the problem of why snowflakes are hexagonal,
two centuries before the first successful steps were taken towards
its solution. The purpose of this volume is to display the
historical, literary, scientific, and philosophical treasures of
Kepler's essay. The book includes the modernized text of the 1611
Latin edition, with an English translation by Colin Hardie on the
opposite pages. The text is accompanied by an introduction giving
details of the history of the work, and two essays; Professor B. J.
Mason's discussion of the scientific meaning and validity of
Kepler's arguments and their relation to the history of
crystallography and of space filling, and L. L. Whyte's examination
of Kepler's facultas formatrix in relation to the history of
philosophical and scientific ideas on the genesis of forms.
A SUMMARY OF ASTRONOMICAL DOCTRINE NECESSARY FOR SPECULATION INTO
THE CELESTIAL HARMONIES
1942. A brief dissertation looking towards a cosmotheory together
with a physical prognosis for the year 1602. Translated from the
Latin of Johann Kepler, the founder with Copernicus of modern
astronomy. Kepler predicts the movements of the celestial objects,
along with their effects on earth's climate, on earthquakes, and on
the lives of men. He also comments on a physical theory describing
the mechanism of this effect.
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