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KEPLER (JOHANNES) Prodromus dissertationum cosmographicarum, continens mysterium cosmographicum de admirabili proportione orbium coelestium... demonstratum per quinque regularia corpora geometrica... Addita est erudita narratio M. Georgii Ioachimi Rhetici, de libris revolutionum... Item, eiusdem Ioannis Kepleri pro suo opere harmonices mundi apologia adversus demonstrationem analyticam... Roberti de Fluctibus, Frankfurt, Erasmus Kempfer, for Godefrid Tampach, 1621
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Footnotes
Kepler's Mysterium cosmographicum (originally published in 1596), which was "essentially the first unabashedly Copernican treatise since De Revolutionibus" (DSB) in which Kepler outlines his theory that the orbit of each of the five planets is determined by the circumference of the five platonic solids nested one inside the other. The second edition includes Kepler's updated thoughts on Copernican theory, and the first appearance of his response to Robert Fludd's criticisms.
Provenance: Dupplin Castle, seat of the Hay Earls of Kinnoull, Perth and Kinross, with "Dupplin Castle R. 175.10." inked inside upper cover.





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