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This reminds me of Kepler’s idea that nested Platonic solids describe the relative orbit diameters of the (known) planets: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myst
by glial 7y ago
This reminds me of Kepler’s idea that nested Platonic solids describe the relative orbit diameters of the (known) planets:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterium_Cosmographicum https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mysterium_Cosmographicum
- dr_dshiv 7y ago>He found that each of the five Platonic solids could be uniquely inscribed and circumscribed by spherical orbs; nesting these solids, each encased in a sphere, within one another would produce six layers, corresponding to the six known planets—Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. By ordering the solids correctly—octahedron, icosahedron, dodecahedron, tetrahedron, and cube—Kepler found that the spheres correspond to the relative sizes of each planet's path around the Sun, generally varying from astronomical observations by less than 10%.
- Sharlin 7y agoSee also the Titius–Bode law [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titius%E2%80%93Bode_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titius%E2%80%93Bode_law
- gmfawcett 7y agoJohn Conway had a lecture where he discusses this (among other things): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W63uFjlgNds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W63uFjlgNds
- glial 7y agoWow, I had never watched one of his lectures before, that was a treat. Thank you!