 1619 first edition | |
| Author | Johannes Kepler |
|---|---|
| Language | Latin |
| Subject | Astronomy, Music |
| Publisher | Linz |
Publication date | 1619 |
Harmonice Mundi (Harmonices mundi libri V)[1] (Latin: The Harmony of the World, 1619) is a book by Johannes Kepler. In the work, written entirely in Latin, Kepler discusses harmony and congruence in geometrical forms and physical phenomena. The final section of the work relates his discovery of the so-called third law of planetary motion.[2]
- ^ The full title is Ioannis Keppleri Harmonices mundi libri V (The Five Books of Johannes Kepler's The Harmony of the World).
- ^ Johannes Kepler, Harmonice Mundi [The Harmony of the World] (Linz, (Austria): Johann Planck, 1619), p. 189. From the bottom of p. 189: "Sed res est certissima extactissimaque quod proportio qua est inter binorum quorumcunque Planetarum tempora periodica, sit præcise sesquialtera proportionis mediarum distantiarum, id est Orbium ipsorum; ..." (But it is absolutely certain and exact that the proportion between the periodic times of any two planets is precisely the sesquialternate proportion [i.e., the ratio of 3:2] of their mean distances, that is, of the actual spheres, ..."
An English translation of Kepler's Harmonice Mundi is available as: Johannes Kepler with E. J. Aiton, A. M. Duncan, and J. V. Field, trans., The Harmony of the World (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: American Philosophical Society, 1997); see especially music is deadly ?id=rEkLAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA411 p. 411.