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Johannes Kepler wrote this in Mysterium Cosmographicum (1596), his first major astronomical work, in which he attempted to explain the spacing of the planetary orbits using the five Platonic solids nested within each other. Although the geometric model proved incorrect, the book displayed the combination of mathematical ambition and wonder at nature's complexity that would characterize all his later work, including the discovery of his three laws of planetary motion.