Mystery of the Universe

Japanese: 《宇宙の神秘》 - うちゅうのしんぴ
Mystery of the Universe

…He continued to search tirelessly for mathematical harmony in the universe with a kind of religious fervor. In “The Mysteries of the Universe” (1596), he sought the relationship between the sizes of the planetary orbits and the five regular geometric polyhedrons, which he then refined to a more precise numerical value and became Kepler’s third law in “Harmony of the World” (1619). “The Mysteries of the Universe”, “New Astronomy”, and “Harmony of the World” are his representative works, and contain Kepler’s three laws. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "The Mysteries of the Universe" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…そこで彼は一種の宗教的情熱をもって宇宙における数学的調和をあくことなく求め続けた。《宇宙の神秘》(1596)において諸惑星軌道の大きさと五つの幾何学的正多面体の関係を求め,それがより数値的に精密になって,《世界の調和》(1619)でケプラーの第3法則になったのも,こうした動機に基づく探究の結果であった。《宇宙の神秘》《新天文学》《世界の調和》は彼の代表的な作品で,その中にケプラーの三つの法則は含まれている。…

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