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    "work": "Johannes Kepler, Harmonices mundi libri V (Lincii Austriae: sumptibus Godofredi Tampachii, excudebat Ioannes Plancus, 1619), the first printing, Smithsonian Libraries copy, scan and OCR layer",
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    "work": "Johannes Kepler, Harmonices mundi libri V, the Latin Wikisource transcription from the 1619 printing: the title, the dedication to James I and book I (books II–V are not transcribed there)",
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  "Mysterium cosmographicum 1596, the epigram on the title leaf (OCR) — 'Hic te Pythagoras docet omnia quinque figuris'",
  "Mysterium cosmographicum 1596, title (OCR) — 'DE ADMIRABILI PROPORTIONE ORBIVM'",
  "Mysterium cosmographicum 1596, imprint (OCR) — 'Excudebat Georgius Gruppenbachius'",
  "Mysterium cosmographicum 1596, the nesting of the solids, from the preface (OCR) — 'culus hoc comprehendens erit Mars' (the sentence before it, 'Terra est Circulus mensor omnium', is read by the OCR as 'Terra esi Circuitu menfot omnium'; the phrase after it is taken)",
  "Astronomia nova 1609, title (OCR) — 'PHYSICA COELESTIS, tradita commentariis'",
  "Astronomia nova 1609, running head (OCR) — 'DE MOTIBVS MARTIS'",
  "Astronomia nova 1609, title, the observations of Tycho (OCR) — 'RVDOLPHI II ROMANORVM IMPERATORIS'",
  "Harmonices mundi 1619, title page (OCR) — 'Ioannis Keppleri HARMONICES'",
  "Harmonices mundi 1619, the head of book V (OCR) — 'IO. KEPLERI Harmonices Mundi LIBER V.'",
  "Harmonices mundi 1619, book V cap. 3, the third law, the part the OCR read (OCR) — 'binorum quorumcunque Planetarum' (the OCR reads this phrase of the third law correctly and garbles the rest of the sentence)",
  "Harmonices mundi, title (Wikisource) — 'Lincii Austriæ, Sumptibus Godofredi Tampachii'",
  "Harmonices mundi I, Kepler on Ramus and the Mysterium (Wikisource) — 'donec libellum meum, quem Mysterium Cosmographicum inscripsi, perlegerit'"
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  "Harmonices mundi 1619, book V cap. 3, the third law (OCR) — 'sit praecise sesquialtera proportionis mediarum distantiarum' (the OCR garbles the passage; the Wikisource layer does not reach book V)"
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 "ruling": "Lee Sharks, 2026-10-30: \"and then an ea-corpora seating... Einstein, Gödel, Tesla, Copernicus, Galileo, classical Arabic mathematicians... what is in the public domain, and what else? and just to be perverse lets seat the promised Klee notebooks with them\"; to the proposed set: \"yes, thats a good set\".",
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  "in_this_seating": "30/04 copernicus (De revolutionibus), 30/05 galileo (the Sidereus nuncius, to which Kepler answered with the Dissertatio cum nuncio sidereo, 1610), 30/07 newton, 30/11 archimedes-ptolemy (the Almagest; the appendix to Harmonices mundi compares the work with book III of Ptolemy's Harmonics, which is not seated)."
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