Harmonices mundi..Johannes Kepler
Harmonices mundi..
by Johannes Kepler · first published 1973
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…ignore what is in the sky." (Plato's Republic) This kind of thinking is likely the same sort of thinking that got Kepler off the track trying to force the Pythagorean solids into planetary orbits in his Harmonices Mundi. (maybe call it "Pseudoscientism" a belief that merely scientific-looking commonalities are in fact universalities)
on ““Because I'm a bastard, and proud of it” (2000)” ↗…to confusion. I personally like to see it more - inspired through e.g. Kepler's imagination[0] - as a geometrical-dynamic system (Kepler orbits) more akin to music. [0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonices_Mundi
on “Venus is not Earth’s closest neighbor” ↗Man, Kepler would've loved this. One of his books was titled https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonices_Mundi
on “Astronomers find six planets orbiting in resonance” ↗…interesting to note that even though Kepler is exclusively remembered today for his three laws, Kepler himself considered them a somewhat minor result. Most of the book in which he describes his third law, Harmonices Mundi, is concerned with astrology, music theory, and (for lack of a better word) mysticism. An excerpt from the Wikipedia article gives a flavor: ''' While medieval philosophers spoke metaphorically of…
on “The astronomer and the witch – how Kepler saved his mother from the stake” ↗Inspired by the book Harmonices Mundi by Johannes Kepler.
on “Data Sonification of Planet Orbits” ↗