Treasures of the Area Studies Collections: Reconsidering Primary Sources and Collections

Item

Platonic Solid Model of the Solar System from Mysterium Cosmographicum (1596)

Title

Platonic Solid Model of the Solar System from Mysterium Cosmographicum (1596)

Creator

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)

Contributor

Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library

Date

1596

Description

Foldout, black-and-white print of Kepler's Platonic Solid Model of the Solar System from Mysterium Cosmographicum (1596)

Format

image

Rights

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Source

Prodromus dissertationum cosmographicarum : continens mysterium cosmographicum, de admirabili proportione orbium coelestium, de que causis coelorum numeri, magnitudinis, motuumq́ue periodicorum genuinis & proprijs : demonstratum, per quinque regularia corpora geometrica (Tubingen: Georgius Gruppenbachius, 1596), Tabula III. Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University.