Prodromus Dissertationum Cosmographicarum, continens Mysterium Cosmographicum De Admirabili Proportione Orbium coelestium, deque causis coelorum numeri, magnitudinis, motuumque periodicorum genuinis & propriis, Demonstratum per quinque regularia corpora Geometrica … Addita est erudita Narratio M. Georgii Joachimi Rhetici, de Libris Revolutionum, atque admirandis de numero, ordine, & distantiis Sphaerarum Mundi hypothesibus, excellentissimi Mathematici, totiusque Astronomiae Restauratoris D. Nicolai Copernici. [Bound, as issued, with:] Pro suo Opere Harmonices Mundi Apologia adversus Demonstrationem Analyticam Cl.V.D. Roberti de Fluctibus …
Frankfurt: Erasmus Kempfer for Godefrid Tampach, 1621-1622. Second, enlarged, edition of the Mysterium cosmographicum (first, 1596), Kepler’s first scientific book, “the first unabashedly Copernican treatise since De revolutionibus itself” (Gingerich in DSB), which laid “the foundation of his vast later astronomical work [and] immediately made him famous in scientific circles..... More
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