Author

Johannes Kepler(1571–1630)

Johannes Kepler is documented in Fuller’s manuscripts (1841). One work is named, all in Reading Notes, 1841, and the most intensive engagement recorded is “mentioned”.

Engagement
Mentioned
Present in
Manuscripts
Documented
1841
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Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this author is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →

In Fuller’s words

“One of the noblest works that a statesman can study is Kepler's Harmonic world. The law that regulates the stars must regulate the earth and its inhabitants.”
Harmonices Mundi [The Harmony of the World] · Reading Notes, 1841 · 1841

When Fuller engaged with Johannes Kepler

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist1record
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
1850

This page brings together documented engagements currently identified within the Fuller Reading Worlds catalog.

Kepler in Fuller’s reading world

Documentary evidence

Selected passages from Fuller’s own writings, in chronological order.

1841—

Reading Notes, 1841

p98
mentioned
“One of the noblest works that a statesman can study is Kepler's Harmonic world. The law that regulates the stars must regulate the earth and its inhabitants.”

Fuller, Margaret. "Reading Notes, 1841." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1221 (Caroline Sturgis Tappan papers, 1838–1921).