Article ID: CBB853150380

Johannes Kepler. The Sun as the Heart of the World (2022)

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In two early unpublished texts (a Disputation in favor of Copernicus of 1593 and the Apologia pro Tychone against Ursus of 1600), Kepler argued with the Pythagoreans that, contrary to Aristotle (De caelo, ii, 13), the geometrical center of the cosmos coincides with its natural center. Since the Sun is the body that occupies this central position, Kepler conceives it as the heart of the world and the principle of planetary motion. In the following study, we examine how Kepler further develops this pivotal theme in a letter to Herwart von Hohenburg of 25 March 1605 and later in the Dissertatio cum nuncio sidereo (Prague, 1610) as well as in a German translation and critical commentary of the Aristotelian chapter, which ultimately remained unpublished as well.

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Authors & Contributors
Boner, Patrick J.
Bussotti, Paolo
Camerota, Michele
Ciancio, Luca
Cohen, I. Bernard
Couprie, Dirk L.
Journals
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Galilæana: Journal of Galilean Studies
Foundations of Science
History of Science
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage
Physics in Perspective
Publishers
Springer
Harvard University
Birkhäuser
Historische Uitgeverij
Concepts
Celestial mechanics
Earth (planet)
Astronomy
Sun
Correspondence and corresponding
Cosmology
People
Galilei, Galileo
Kepler, Johannes
von Hohenburg, Hans Georg Herwart
Brahe, Tycho
Brewster, David
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
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17th century
16th century
19th century
Ancient
Medieval
Early modern
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Bavaria (Germany)
Munich (Germany)
India
Greece
Russia
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Universität Ingolstadt
Project Apollo (NASA)
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