"Although the concept of heavenly harmony was a theme mentioned in the literature of the time... Kepler's world harmony had little influence on his contemporaries. ...With the rise of the experimental science advocated by Francis Bacon and greatly facilitated by the invention and development of scientific instruments, the general trend of the seventeenth century was towards a mechanical natural philosophy in which metaphysical speculation would play little part. Another factor... may possibly be recognized in the nature of developments that had taken place in mathematics during the sixteenth century, for the advances in algebra and the introduction of symbolism favored a nominalist view of mathematics in contrast to the realist Platonic view of geometry that Kepler adopted as a foundation for his theory of a world harmony."
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