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100	1		_aCaspar, Max, _d1880-1956., _eauthor.
240	1	0	_aJohannes Kepler. _lEnglish
245	1	0	_aKepler / _cMax Caspar ; translated and edited by C. Doris Hellman ; with a new introduction and references by Owen Gingerich ; bibliographical citations by Owen Gingerich and Alain Segonds.
264		1	_aNew York : _bDover Publications, _c1993.
300			_a441 pages ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aDover books on astronomy
500			_aOriginally published: London ; New York: Abelard-Schuman, ©1959. (Life of science library ; 36).
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction. 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.
520			_aDefinitive 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.
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600	1	0	_aKepler, Johannes, _d1571-1630. _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50044770 _95481
600	1	7	_aKepler, Johannes, _d1571-1630 _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00015428 _95481
650		0	_aAstronomers _zGermany _vBiography. _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101541 _97642
650		7	_a39.01 history of astronomy. _0(NL-LeOCL)077602668 _2bcl
650		7	_aAstronomers. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00819629 _94452
651		7	_aGermany. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01210272
653		0	_aAstronomy
653		5	_aGermany
653		2	_aBiography astronomical
653		1	_aGingerich Owen [Introduction & References]
653		0	_aScientific instrument
655		7	_aBiographies. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst01919896
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft
700	1		_aHellman, Clarisse Doris, _d1910-1973. _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n87807614 _96753
830		0	_aDover books on astronomy.
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