Download or read book The Music of the Heavens written by Bruce Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with a survey of similar theories associating music with the cyclic motions of planets, from Plato to Boethius, the author highlights Ptolemy's Harmonics, a source of inspiration for Kepler's later work. Turning to Kepler himself, Stephenson gives an account of his polyhedral theory, which explains the number and sizes of the planetary orbits in terms of the five regular polyhedral.