this page honors Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
In his book The Harmony of The World (published in 1619), Johannes Kepler developed his imaginative ideas from all four of what were known at the time as the mathematical sciences: arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. The quotations are from his book.
"[W]e … speak of melody, that is harmonious intervals which are not abstract but realized in sound."
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"For it is not only in sounds and in human melody that they yield their charm, but also in other things…."
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"[H]armonic proportions also occur at their own time, and thus subsist not in BEING but in BECOMING."
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"[W]e express the ideas of the intervals alone, which have been implanted by nature, in music…."
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"[T]he whole nature of harmony … is to be discovered among the celestial motions."
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"[I]t is also settled that all the planets are eccentric … they change their distances from the Sun…."
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