Author: Johannes KeplerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy, IV and V ; The Harmonies of the World, V
Author: Johannes KeplerEpitome of Copernican Astronomy
Author: Johannes KeplerEpitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World
Author: Johannes KeplerPublisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1615921974
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
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.
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
Author: Johannes KeplerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 1130
Book Description
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
Author: J. KeplerEpitome of Copernican Astronomy
Author: Johannes KeplerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
The Almagest ; On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres ; Epitome of Copernican Astronomy: IV and V ; The Harmonies of the World V
Author: PtolemyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780852291634
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Almagest; On the Revolutions of the Heavently Spheres; Epitome of Copernican Astronomy: IV and V.; The Harmonies of the World: V
Author: Claudio PtolomeoPlanetary Motions
Author: Norriss S. HetheringtonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313027587
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Students in an introductory physics class learn a variety of different, and seemingly unconnected, concepts. Gravity, the laws of motion, forces and fields, the mathematical nature of the science - all of these are ideas that play a central role in understanding physics. And one thing that connects all of these physical concepts is the impetus the great scientists of the past had to develop them - the desire to understand the motion of the planets of the solar system. This desire led to the revolutionary work of Copernicus and Galileo, Kepler and Newton. And their work forever altered how science is practiced and understood.
The Musical Order of the World
Author: Siglind BruhnPublisher: Pendragon Press
ISBN: 9781576471173
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
In the disastrous years before and during the Second World War, when confidence in a harmonious future was as difficult as it was crucial for spiritual survival, two German artists in exile wrote what would become their late masterpieces. The composer Paul Hindemith conceived an opera on the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler's mature life and theories, The Harmony of the World; the poet and novelist Hermann Hesse wrote a complex literary collage, i>The Glass Bead Game. Both works address the topic of universal harmony in the fabric of creation and culture, as well as the urgent problem of how such harmony can heal the spiritual, mental, and emotional developments of individuals and of society at large. The two quests are mirrored into circumstances that are almost equidistant from the mid-20th-century period in which their stories are being told. Hindemith's opera centers on an outstanding intellectual in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, while Hesse's work focuses on this intellectual's counterpart projected into a fictional world of the early 23rd century. In both cases, the quest for harmony and truthful proportion manifests at all levels of the stories told and of the works telling them. Siglind Bruhn's thought-provoking interdisciplinary study is organized along the lines of the seven areas in which scholars of the Pythagorean tradition from Plato to Kepler and beyond found universal harmony paradigmatically realized music, arithmetic, geometry and astronomy (the quadrivium of the medieval liberal arts) complemented by metaphysics, psychology, and art.