Exhibition: Political Ecologies in the Renaissance
Item appears in the following exhibition pagePolitical Ecologies in the Renaissance: Astronomy: Mysterium Cosmographicum Item Information Dublin CoreTitleMysterium Cosmographicum
DescriptionIllustration of nested regular solids, depicting Kepler's model of the solar system. Saturn's orbit circumscribes the cube, Jupiter's orbit the tetrahedron, Mars' orbit the dodecahedron, Earth's orbit the icosahedron, and Venus' orbit the octahedron. Mercury's orbit is nested inside the octahedron.
CreatorKepler, Johannes, 1571-1630
PublisherGodfrey Tampach and Erasmus Kempfer
MODSKey Date1621
Type of Dateexact
Publication PlaceFrankfurt
Form/Genrebooks
Repository NameRare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Language of CatalogingEnglish
Digital OriginReformatted Digital
CitationKepler, Johannes, 1571-1630, “Mysterium Cosmographicum,” Columbia University Libraries Online Exhibitions, accessed April 16, 2024, https://exhibitions.library.columbia.edu/exhibits/show/political_ecologies/item/4759. |