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    Mysterium Cosmographicum (lit. The Cosmographic Mystery, alternately translated as Cosmic Mystery, The Secret of the World, or some variation) is an astronomy...
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    and made many contributions to tables and diagrams in Kepler's Mysterium Cosmographicum, published in 1596. Maestlin and Kepler communicated through letters...
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    published some of the ideas he had entertained while a student in the Mysterium Cosmographicum (1596), published a little over a year after his arrival at Graz...
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    Johannes Kepler as he devoted much of his time after publishing the Mysterium Cosmographicum (Mystery of the Cosmos), looking over tables and trying to fit...
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    between two objects. In 1596, Kepler published his first book, the Mysterium Cosmographicum, which was the second (after Thomas Digges, in 1576) to endorse...
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    in system of concentric cylindrical shells. Johannes Kepler's Mysterium Cosmographicum envisioned a cosmological system formed by concentric regular polyhedra...
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    Brahe's publication of his cometary research in 1588. In his early Mysterium Cosmographicum, Johannes Kepler considered the distances of the planets and the...
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  • extraterrestrial planets known at that time to the five Platonic solids. In Mysterium Cosmographicum, published in 1596, Kepler proposed a model of the Solar System...
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    Inner section of Kepler's Platonic solid model of planetary spacing in the Solar System from Mysterium Cosmographicum (1596)...
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    accurate measurements in his observational database. Kepler's Mysterium cosmographicum (1596), a strong defense of the Copernican system, still pictures...
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