Kepler's Harmony of the World
1619
Johannes Kepler published Harmonices Mundi, containing his third law: the square of a planet's orbital period is proportional to the cube of its distance from the Sun. He believed he was uncovering the music of the spheres. He was; it just played in mathematics, and Newton would soon prove why the harmony held with a single gravitational equation.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.