From The Science Asylum.
Science history is littered with really cool ideas that turned to be wrong. Kepler’s Mysterium Cosmographicum is one of my favorite examples.
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SOURCES
Kepler’s Papers:
– Mysterium Cosmographicum
https://risingtidefoundation.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/kepler-mysterium.pdf
– Astronomia Nova
https://library.si.edu/digital-library/book/astronomianovaa00kepl
– Harmonice Mundi
https://books.google.com/books?id=rEkLAAAAIAAJ
Info about the Cosmographicum:
https://www.cyphertext.net/gfish/Kepler2017.pdf
https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/KeplersMysteriumCosmographicum/
Info about Kepler:
https://books.google.com/books?id=N1vLAgAAQBAJ
Info about Planets:
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/_edu/pdfs/scaless_reference.pdf
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TIME CODES
00:00 Intro
00:39 Johannes Kepler
01:26 Geocentrism
02:08 Platonic Solids
03:05 Mysterium Cosmographicum
04:41 Tycho Brahe
05:02 Our New Website
05:28 Kepler Learns He’s Incorrect
06:03 Kepler’s Laws of Planetary Motion
07:12 Closing Thoughts
08:01 Featured Comment
