Kepler attempt to associate the six known planets with the five Platonic Solids [La tentative de Képler d'associer les six planètes alors connues aux cinq solides platoniciens ]

Kepler attempt to associate the six known planets with the five Platonic Solids [La tentative de Képler d'associer les six planètes alors connues aux cinq solides platoniciens].




In 1595, Johannes Kepler found that each of the five Platonic Solids could be inscribed and circumscribed by spherical orbs, nesting these solids, each encased in a sphere and then associated to the six known planets (at that time...).

Mercury ==> Regular Octahedron -grey- ==> Venus
Venus ==> Regular Icosahedron -cyan- ==> Earth
Earth ==> Regular Dodecahedron -red- ==> Mars
Mars ==> Regular Tetrahedron -orange- ==> Jupiter
Jupiter ==> Cube -yellow- ==> Saturn



See the Kepler's structure without the encasing spheres:

Kepler attempt to associate the six known planets with the five Platonic Solids


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