Mysterium Cosmographicum
Also known as: Secret of the Universe
Cosmic Mystery
Author
Language
Year
1595
Country
Germany
Genre
Nonfiction Book (Treatise, History, Biography, or Book-Length Essay)
renaissance
astronomy
science
Mysterium Cosmographicum is an astronomy book by the German astronomer Johannes Kepler, published at Tübingen in late 1596 and in a second edition in 1621. Kepler proposed that the distance relationships between the six planets known at that time could be understood in terms of the five Platonic solids, enclosed within a sphere that represented the orbit of Saturn.Wikipedia →