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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
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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