The Harmony of the World

The Harmony of the World
Author: Johannes Kepler
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Total Pages: 618
Release: 1997
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780871692092

The authors have presented and interpreted Johannes Kepler's Latin text to English readers by putting it into the kind of clear but earnest language they suppose Kepler would have used if he had been writing today.

The Music of the Spheres

The Music of the Spheres
Author: Jamie James
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 292
Release: 1995-06
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780387944746

For centuries, scientists and philosophers believed the universe was a stately; ordered mechanism - mathematical and musical. The smooth operation of the cosmos created a divine harmony (perfect, spiritual, eternal) which composers sought to capture and express. With The Music of the Spheres, readers will see how this scientific philosophy emerged, how it was shattered by changing views of the universe and the rise of Romanticism, and to what extent (if at all) it survives today. From Pythagoras to Newton, Bach to Beethoven, and on into the twentieth century, it is a spellbinding examination of the interwoven fates of science and music throughout history.

The Harmony of the Spheres

The Harmony of the Spheres
Author: Joscelyn Godwin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 348
Release: 1992-11-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1620550962

Professor of Music at Colgate University and a widely respected musicologist, Godwin traces the history of the idea, held since ancient times, that the whole cosmos, with its circling planets and stars, is in some way a musical or harmonious entity. The author shows how this concept has continued to inspire philosophers, astronomers, and mystics from antiquity to the present day.

The Harmony of the Sphere

The Harmony of the Sphere
Author: Silvia De Bianchi
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2013-08-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1443852082

The contributors to The Harmony of the Sphere include professional historians of science, philosophers of science, and scientists, who offer different perspectives from which Kant’s and Herschel’s systems can be approached. The title, The Harmony of the Sphere, is an evocative one. In it, the reader will hear an echo of Kepler’s cosmological system. In fact, however, this title refers to the new model of the world defended by Kant and Herschel. This model dismissed the idea of a finite static cosmos, and introduced an evolutionary perspective. This volume represents a contribution to studies that integrate the history and philosophy of science. It presents, for the first time, a comparative study of Kant and Herschel in order to highlight the historical and philosophical underpinnings of their worldviews – worldviews which would in turn have a crucial influence on the development of nineteenth- and twentieth-century astronomy and cosmology.

Signature of the Celestial Spheres

Signature of the Celestial Spheres
Author: Hartmut Warm
Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Press
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2010
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1855842351

Is the solar system ordered? Or is it simply the result of random and chaotic accidents? This book takes the reader on a compelling and powerful journey of discovery, revealing the celestial spheres in their astonishingly complex patterns. Movements of the planets are found to correspond accurately with simple geometric figures and musical intervals, pointing to an exciting new perspective on the ancient idea of the "harmony of the spheres." Hartmut Warm's detailed presentation incorporates the distances, velocities, and periods of conjunction of the planets, as well as the rotations of the Sun, Moon, and Venus. Numerous graphics--including color plates--illustrate the extraordinary beauty of geometrical forms that result when the movements of several planets are viewed in relation to one another. Moreover, the author describes and analyzes concepts of the "music of the spheres," with special emphasis on Kepler's revolutionary ideas. The book also discusses current scientific beliefs about the origin of the universe and the solar system, enabling the reader to understand fully how this remarkable research supplements contemporary materialistic views of the cosmos. The appendix includes his mathematical and astronomical methods of calculation, as well as a detailed discussion of their accuracy and validity based on modern astronomical algorithms.

Harmonies of the World

Harmonies of the World
Author: Johannes Kepler
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2021-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Johannes Kepler published Harmonies of the World in 1619. This was the summation of his theories about celestial correspondences, and ties together the ratios of the planetary orbits, musical theory, and the Platonic solids. Kepler's speculations are long discredited. However, this work stands as a bridge between the Hermetic philosophy of the Renaissance, which sought systems of symbolic correspondences in the fabric of nature, and modern science. And today, we finally have heard the music of the spheres: data from outer system probes have been translated into acoustic form, and we can listen to strange clicks and moans from Jupiter's magnetosphere.

Hearing Harmony

Hearing Harmony
Author: Christopher Doll
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2017-05-30
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0472053523

An original, listener-based approach to harmony for popular music from the rock era of the 1950s to the present