TY  - BOOK
AU  - Caspar,Max
AU  - Hellman,Clarisse Doris
TI  - Kepler
T2  - Dover books on astronomy
SN  - 0486676056
PY  - 1993///
CY  - New York
PB  - Dover Publications
KW  - Kepler, Johannes,
KW  - Astronomers
KW  - Germany
KW  - Biography
KW  - 39.01 history of astronomy
KW  - bcl
KW  - fast
KW  - Astronomy
KW  - Biography astronomical
KW  - Gingerich Owen [Introduction & References]
KW  - Scientific instrument
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Originally published: London ; New York: Abelard-Schuman, ©1959. (Life of science library ; 36); Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction. Philosophic and scientific thought in the Renaissance ; Revival of astronomical research -- Copernicus ; Religious conflict in the sixteenth century -- Childhood and youth 1571-1594. Birth and ancestry ; Weil der Stadt ; Kepler's family ; First schooling ; The seminary ; The Stift in Tubingen ; Studies and teachers at the university ; Summons to Graz -- District mathematician and teacher in Graz 1594-1600. Church politics in Graz ; The Stiftsschule ; The district mathematician's first calendars ; Mysterium Cosmographicum ; Marriage ; The beginning of the Counter Reformation ; Further scholarly work -- studies connected with the notion of "world harmony" ; Kepler's oppressing situation and his visit to Tycho Brahe ; Plans and work after Kepler's return ; Sharpened Counter Reformation measures and exile from Graz -- Imperial mathematician in Prague 1600-1612. The first months ; Tycho Brahe's death and Kepler's appointment as imperial mathematician ; Astronomia Nova -- and the second and first planet laws ; Astronomia Pars Optica ; The religious situation in Prague ; Emperor Rudolph II and Kepler ; The new star of 1604 ; Financial worries ; Kepler's patrons and friends ; Home life ; Tabulae Rudolphinae -- Ephemerides -- Antwort auf Roslini Discurs -- Tertius Interveniens ; Political disorders -- Kepler on the watch for a new place to work ; Galileo's first discoveries with the telescope ; Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo ; Dioptrice ; The unfortunate year, 1611 ; Rejected by the Wurttemberg theologians -- successful negotiations with Linz -- death of Frau Kepler -- departure from Prague -- District mathematician in Linz 1612-1626. Kepler in a new intellectual situation and official position ; Exclusion from communion ; Second marriage and household ; The year of Christ's birth -- the Gregorian calendar ; Stereometria Doliorum and other scholarly work ; Kepler's mother's witch trial ; Last unavailing attempt in Tubingen to obtain admission to communion ; Harmonice Mundi -- and the third planet law ; Controversy with Robert Fludd ; Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae ; Calendars and comets ; Wartime in Linz -- the Counter Reformation ; Tabulae Rudolphinae ; Siege of Linz and Kepler's departure -- Last years in Ulm and Sagan and death in Regensburg 1626-1630. Ulm and the Tabulae Rudolphinae ; In search of a new dwelling place: Landgrave Philip of Hesse, Emperor Ferdinand ; Disagreement with the Jesuits ; Kepler and Wallenstein ; Sagan ; Somnium ; Jakob Bartsch ; Regensburg and Kepler's death ; The fate of Kepler's family and manuscripts -- Review and evaluation. Kepler's physical constitution and his character ; Kepler's view of the world and his doctrine of knowledge ; Kepler's cosmography
N2  - Definitive biography by foremost scholar offers fascinating erudite picture of great mathematicians scientific accomplishments: formulation of laws of planetary motion, work with optics and calculus, much more. Also detailed chronicle of Keplers public and personal life
ER  -