STUDY OF MYSTERIUM COSMOGRAPHICUM Kepler

Description Edit Subject, Category, Year Subject Geometric Category Photography Year 2000 Mediums, Materials, Styles Mediums Polaroid, Digital, Black & White, LED, Glass Materials Glass, Paper, Canvas Styles Illustration, Photorealism, Realism, Cubism Dimensions 100 W x 161 H x 0.2 D centimeters Keywords planets, solar, spirit, system, transparent, universe, crystal, diamond, regular polyhedra, god, illumination, mystery Description This study consists of a geometric and mathematically exact 3 D digital creation of Kepler's Platonic solid model of the Solar System from Mysterium Cosmographicum Mysterium Cosmographicum (lit. The Cosmographic Mystery,[a] alternately translated as Cosmic Mystery, The Secret of the World, or some variation) is an astronomy book by the German astronomer Johannes Kepler, published at Tübingen in 1597[1][b] 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. He realized that regular polygons bound one inscribed and one circumscribed circle at definite ratios, which, he reasoned, might be the geometrical basis of the universe. Kepler began experimenting with 3-dimensional polyhedra. He found that each of the five Platonic solids could be uniquely inscribed and circumscribed by spherical orbs; nesting these solids, each encased in a sphere, within one another would produce six layers, corresponding to the six known planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. By ordering the solids correctly—octahedron, icosahedron, dodecahedron, tetrahedron, and cube—Kepler found that the spheres correspond to the relative sizes of each planet's path around the Sun, generally varying from astronomical observations by less than 10%. Kepler thought he had revealed God’s geometrical plan for the universe. Much of Kepler's enthusiasm for the Copernican system stemmed from his theological convictions about the connection between the physical and the spiritual; Kepler never relinquished the Platonist polyhedral-spherist cosmology of Mysterium Cosmographicum. These works are also offered in limited editions for sizes larger than those presented here. Ask for prices and sizes I recommend sound effects to enhance the effect