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Additional authors

1. Ptolemy, active 2nd century.
2. Fludd, Robert, 1574-1637.
3. Drexel Collection.

Description

1. 4 p. ℓ., 66 (i.e. 64), 255 p. : illus. (music) 4 pl., diagrs.; 31 cm.

Alternative title

1. Harmonices mundi libri v.

Subject

1. Music
2. Geometry > Early works to 1800
3. Solar system

Call number

1. 3-OMM+ (Kepler, J. Ioannis Keppleri Harmonices mvndi libri v)

Note

1. Books 1-2 are paged continuously, as are books 3-5. Books 1,4, and 5 have special title-pages, included in the paging.
2. The Library of Congress has another issue of same date, with fuller title, and different ornament on t.-p., and with 2 full-page plates which are wanting in the present copy. The present copy has l plate (facing p. 186) which is wanting in the other issue. Two typographical errors in the other issue (p. 171, 1st line, and p. 205, catch-word) are corrected in this.

Author

1. Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630.

Title

1. Ioannis Keppleri Harmonices mvndi libri v. Qvorvm primus geometricvs, de figurarum regularium, quæ proportiones harmonicas constituunt, ortu & demonstrationibus. Secundus architectonicvs, seu ex geometria figvrata, de figurarum regularium congruentia in plano vel solido: Tertius propriè harmonicvs, de proportionum harmonicarum ortu ex figuris; deque naturâ & differentiis rerum ad cantum pertinentium, contra veteres: Quartus metaphysicvs, psychologicvs & astrologicvs, de harmoniarum mentali essentiâ earumque generibus in mundo; præsertim de harmonia radiorum, ex corporibus cœlestibus in terram descendentibus, eiusque effectu in natura seu anima sublunari & humana: Quintus astronomicvs & metaphysicvs, de harmoniis absolutissimis motuum cœlestium, ortuque eccentricitatum ex proportionibus harmonicis. Appendix habet comparationem huius operis cum Harmonices Cl. Ptolemæi libro III. cumque Roberti de Fluctibus, dicti Flud. medici oxoniensis speculationibus harmonicis, operi de Macrocosmo & microcosmo insertis. [ornament]

Imprint

1. Lincii, Austriæ : sumptibus Godofredi Tampachii excudebat Ioannes Plancvs, 1619.

Local note

1. NYPL copy in Drexel 2669 contains annotations in pencil.
2. Cogswell.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Music & Recorded Sound Division Special Collections material
2. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Drexel Collection.
2. Ptolemy, active 2nd century.
3. Fludd, Robert, 1574-1637.

Added title

1. Harmonices mundi libri v.

LCCN

1. 22013574 //r

Research call number

1. 3-OMM+ (Kepler, J. Ioannis Keppleri Harmonices mvndi libri v)
2. Drexel 2669