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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 image 1
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 image 2
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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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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, second (enlarged) edition, 4 folding woodcut plates, one folding engraved plate signed Christophor Leibfried, woodcut initials and headpieces, woodcut diagrams in the text, without blank f6, dampstaining throughout, a few small wormtrails in upper and lower blank margins (but just touching 2 of the plates), contemporary calf, rebacked preserving most of original spine [Caspar 67 and 68; Houzeau & Lancaster 2841], folio (318 x 197mm.), Frankfurt, Erasmus Kempfer, for Godefrid Tampach, 1621

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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