Kepler's cosmological model. Composite image of a model of Kepler's Platonic solids,with Latin text and the title of the work in which this model was described. The German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) developed this model to demonstrate the relative distances of the planets from the Sun in the Copernican system. This revolutionary new heliocentric (sun-centred) theory,had been published in 1543. Kepler published a supporting work,The Cosmographic Mystery (1597),that put forward the idea that the distances of the six known planets from the Sun were determined by the five regular solids seen here | |
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Credit: | Science Photo Library / Van Ravenswaay, Detlev |
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