Brill. Leiden, 2013. 201 p. Language: english. The cosmology of Johannes Kepler remains a mystery. On the one hand, Kepler’s speculations on spiritual faculties are seen as the remnants of Renaissance philosophy. On the other, his comparison of the cosmos to a clock summons the mechanical metaphor that shaped modern science. This book explores the inseparable connections...
Dover, 1993. — 464 p. A towering figure in intellectual history and one of the fathers of modern astronomy, the great mathematician Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) is best known for his discovery of the three laws of planetary motion, which paved the way for a dynamic explanation of the heavenly phenomena. At a time when the Ptolemaic view still prevailed in official circles,...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2005. - 401 p. Set against the backdrop of the witchcraft trial of his mother, this lively biography of Johannes Kepler – 'the Protestant Galileo' and 16th century mathematician and astronomer – reveals the surprisingly spiritual nature of the quest of early modern science. In the style of Dava Sobel's Galileo's Daughter , Connor's book brings to life...
Princeton University Press, 2000, 216 p. Johannes Kepler contributed importantly to every field he addressed. He changed the face of astronomy by abandoning principles that had been in place for two millennia, made important discoveries in optics and mathematics, and was an uncommonly good philosopher. Generally, however, Kepler's philosophical ideas have been dismissed as...
American Journal of Physics, July 1966, Volume 34, Issue 7, pages 610-613. Kepler's Harmonics of the Universe , the mature work in which he first enunciated his third law of planetary motion, was a consummation of some of his youthful ideas. He introduced the term inertia into physics and astronomy, extended its purview to the heavens, and contributed essential components to...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 359 p. Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of Copernicus´s sun-centred universe, he famously discovered that planets move in ellipses, and defined the three laws of planetary motion. Perhaps less well known is that in 1615, when Kepler was at...
Springer-Verlag, Series: Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, New York, 1987, 218 p. "Kepler's Physical Astronomy" is an account of Kepler's reformulation of astronomy as a physical science, and of his successful use of (incorrect) physics as a guide in his astronomical discoveries. It presents the only reliable account of the internal logic of Kepler's...
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 1994, 271 p. Language: English Chapters 2-4 give pre-Keplerian background. Chapter 5 presents the polyhedral theory of planetary distances of Kepler's Mysterium cosmographicum of 1596. Chapter 7 discusses Kepler's reading of Ptolemy's work on celestial harmony. Chapter 8 gives an overview of Kepler's Harmonice mundi of 1619. Finally,...
Oxford University Press. 1999, 145 p. Series: Oxford Portraits in Science he book follows the ingenious scientist along the difficult pathway from raw data to his monumental discovery-the three Laws of Planetary Motion. Kepler also made fundamental contributions to optical theory, including a correct description of the function of the eye and a new and improved telescope...
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