Mysterium Cosmographicum (Book) AKA Cosmic Mystery
Mysterium Cosmographicum
1596 AD
AKA Cosmic Mystery
In this book, Kepler describes his discovery of "God's Geometry" of the universe.
The work was an outgrowth of his 1595 Epiphany. Assuming the planets orbit the sun, Kepler realized that the Platonic solids could be nested inside of one another by circumscribing and inscribing them with spheres proportional to the orbits of the known planets.
This convinced him of the correctness of the Copernican system.
Importantly, Tycho Brahe read it and was impressed by Kepler's reasoning abilities, although he steadfastly rejected the book's Copernican thesis.
The full title is Forerunner of the Cosmological Essays, Which Contains the Secret of the Universe; on the Marvelous Proportion of the Celestial Spheres, and on the True and Particular Causes of the Number, Magnitude, and Periodic Motions of the Heavens; Established by Means of the Five Regular Geometric Solids
