Kepler's Obsession

Kepler Believed the universe was ruled by the relationship between 5 perfect bodies. While searching for a system behind the relationships of the distances between the planets and the sun, the German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) hoped to discover a "construction plan of the world”. While he proved his original theory wrong. his mistake founded modern astro-geophysics. This set is arguably the Rosetta stone of Zometool. It demonstrates how the cubic worlds intersect with icosahedral symmetry. And it's all thanks toJohn Conway and his discovery of the most tightly packed nesting of the five platonic solids -- using the Zometool!