Johannes Kepler is a 1974 East German historical drama film directed by Frank Vogel and starring Reimar Johannes Baur, Trude Bechmann and Kurt Böwe. It is a biopic of the German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler.
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1974 film by Frank Vogel
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“My goal is to show that the heavenly machine is not a kind of divine living being but similar to a clockwork insofar as all the manifold motions are taken care of by one single absolutely simple magnetic bodily force, as in a clockwork all motion is taken care of by a simple weight. And indeed I also show how this physical representation can be presented by calculation and geometrically.”
“I propose to show that God, in creating the universe and arranging the spheres, had in view the five regular solids of geometry, and fixed by their dimensions the number, proportions and motions of the spheres. Take the sphere of the earth as a unit and circumscribe it with a regular dodecahedron. The sphere that contains this dodecahedron is the sphere of Mars.”
“The sphere of the attractive virtue which is in the moon extends as far as the earth, and entices up the waters; but as the moon flies rapidly across the zenith, and the waters cannot follow so quickly, a flow of the ocean is occasioned in the torrid zone towards the westward.”
“[N]either this nor that supposition is worthy of the name of an astronomical hypothesis, but rather that which is implied in both alike.”
“The Neo-Platonic background, which furnished the metaphysical justification for much of this mathematical development (at least as regards its bearing on astronomy) awoke Kepler's full conviction and sympathy. Especially did the aesthetic satisfactions gained by this conception of the universe as a simple, mathematical harmony, appeal vigorously to his artistic nature.”
“Kepler made free use if indivisibles in both astronomical work and a treatise on measuring volumes of wine casks. He went far beyond the practical needs... and wrote an extensive tract on indivisible methods. Two illustrative examples are his approaches to the areas of a circle and an ellipse.”
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Johannes Kepler is a 1974 East German historical drama film directed by Frank Vogel and starring Reimar Johannes Baur, Trude Bechmann and Kurt Böwe. It is a biopic of the German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler.