Kepler's spheres. Artwork from the 1596 work Prodromus dissertationum cosmographicarum (Prologue to the dissertation on a description of the universe)

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Kepler's spheres. Artwork from the 1596 work Prodromus dissertationum cosmographicarum (Prologue to the dissertation on a description of the universe) by the German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler (1571-1630). Kepler's spheres here are polyhedra, following the Platonic mysticism, still present in Kepler's time, that associated the regular solids with the classical elements. The text is in Latin.

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