«...I am stealing the golden vessels of the Egyptians to build a tabernacle to my God from them, far far away from the boundaries of Egypt. If you forgive me, I shall rejoice.; if you are enraged with me, I shall bear it. See, I cast the die, and I write the book. Whether it is to be read by the people of the present or of the future makes no difference: let it await its reader for a hundred years, if God himself has stood ready for six thousand years for one to study him. »

Harmonices mundi libri V quorum primus geometricus... Secundus architectonicus... Tertius proprie harmonicus... Quartus metaphysicus, psychologicus & astrologicus... Quintus astronomicus & metaphysicus... Appendix habet comparationem huius operis cum Harmonices Cl. Ptolemaei libro III. cumque Roberti de Fluctibus, dicti Flud medici oxoniensis speculationibus harmonicis, operi de macrocosmo & microcosmo insertis.

Linz: J. Plannk for G. Tampach, 1619