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Harmonies of the World
work by Kepler
Also known as: “Harmonice Mundi”
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discussed in biography
- In Johannes Kepler: Astronomical work of Johannes Kepler
…1619 his Harmonice Mundi (Harmonies of the World, which contained Kepler’s third law) brought together more than two decades of investigations into the archetypal principles of the world: geometrical, musical, metaphysical, astrological, astronomical, and those principles pertaining to the soul. All harmonies were geometrical, including musical ones that derived…
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history of astronomy
- In astronomy: Kepler
In Harmonice Mundi (The Harmony of the World, 1619), Kepler announced his third, or harmonic, law: the ratio a3/T2 is the same for all planets, where a is the semimajor axis of a planet’s elliptical orbit and T is the orbital period.
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