Illustration of nested regular solids, depicting Kepler's model of the solar system. Saturn's orbit circumscribes the cube, Jupiter's orbit the tetrahedron, Mars' orbit the dodecahedron, Earth's orbit the icosahedron, and Venus' orbit the octahedron.…
Kepler describes the alignment of the platonic solids in the solar system. The four illustrations depict flattened views from within the octahedron looking out. The horizontal line is the square bisecting the octahedron, and the other lines show the…