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Publication of Kepler's Harmonices Mundi

Type Event Region Europe Time 1619

In 1619 German astronomer Johannes Kepler published the Latin work Harmonices Mundi in Linz, setting out the mathematical relations between planetary…

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1619Linz · LinzKepler completed and published the five-volume Harmonices Mundi in Linz, linking Platonic solids, musical ratios, and the geometry of planetary orbits, and giving the mathematical statement of the third law of planetary motion in Book V.

Sources

Johannes Kepler https://www.britannica.com/biography/Johannes-Kepler
Kepler's laws of planetary motion https://www.britannica.com/science/Keplers-laws-of-planetary-motion