The Harmonies of the World by Johannes Kepler

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The Harmonies of the World by Johannes Kepler

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The Harmonies of the World by Johannes Kepler

The main purpose of this record is to present Kepler’s Harmony of the World for a period of several centuries. We decided that the length of time represented would have to be at least as long as the period of revolution of the slowest planet, Pluto. Pluto’s period is approximately 248 years or, in our terms, 20 minutes and 42 seconds. And we chose a total length of 22 minutes, representing 264 years.

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Johannes Kepler (German: [joˈhanəs ˈkɛplɐ, -nɛs -][1][2]; 27 December 12, 1571 – 15 November 11, 1630) was a mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer learn German. Is one of the representatives of the scientific revolution of the 17th century, Kepler is best known by the laws of celestial motion bearing his name due to the astronomers set based on the works of him as Astronomia nova, Harmonice Mundi and the astronomer Copernicus simple strategy.

Starting his career, Kepler was a Mathematics teacher at a seminary in Graz, before the role of assistant to astronomer Tycho Brahe. And eventually became astronomer royal family for the holy Roman emperor Rudolf II. And later as the emperor’s successors Matthias and Ferdinand II. In the years of upheaval end of his life, he taught mathematics in Linz (Austria). And is an advisor to Albrecht von Wallenstein. Known primarily today for the study of astronomy, he also has the important works in the field of optics, invented a model reflecting telescopes (telescope Kepler), and discuss the discoveries with a telescope of a scientist who lived at the time, Galileo Galilei.