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- catalog abstract ""Johannes Kepler changed forever our understanding of the universe with his three laws of planetary motion. He demolished the ancient model of planets moving in circular orbits and laid the foundation for the universal law of gravitation, setting physics on the course of revelation it follows to this day. Kepler was one of the greatest astronomers of all time. Yet if it hadn't been for the now lesser-known Tycho Brahe, the man for whom Kepler apprenticed, Kepler would be a mere footnote in today's science books. Brahe was the Imperial Mathematician at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor in Prague and the most famous astronomer of his era. He was one of the first great systematic empirical scientists and one of the earliest founders of the modern scientific method. His forty years of planetary observations - an unparalleled treasure of empirical data - contained the key to Kepler's historic breakthrough. But those observations would become available to Kepler only after Brahe's death. This history portrays the turbulent collaboration between these two astronomers at the turn of the seventeenth century and their shattering discoveries that would mark the transition from medieval to modern science."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b13243506.
- catalog contributor b13243507.
- catalog created "2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2004.".
- catalog description ""Johannes Kepler changed forever our understanding of the universe with his three laws of planetary motion. He demolished the ancient model of planets moving in circular orbits and laid the foundation for the universal law of gravitation, setting physics on the course of revelation it follows to this day. Kepler was one of the greatest astronomers of all time. Yet if it hadn't been for the now lesser-known Tycho Brahe, the man for whom Kepler apprenticed, Kepler would be a mere footnote in today's science books. Brahe was the Imperial Mathematician at the court of the Holy Roman Emperor in Prague and the most famous astronomer of his era. He was one of the first great systematic empirical scientists and one of the earliest founders of the modern scientific method. His forty years of planetary observations - an unparalleled treasure of empirical data - contained the key to Kepler's historic breakthrough. But those observations would become available to Kepler only after Brahe's death. This history portrays the turbulent collaboration between these two astronomers at the turn of the seventeenth century and their shattering discoveries that would mark the transition from medieval to modern science."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [286]-296) and index.".
- catalog description "The funeral -- A transcript of anguish -- Expulsion -- Mapping heaven -- The alchemist -- The exploding star -- An island of his own -- The tychonic system of the world -- Exile -- The secret of the universe -- Marriage -- The Ursus affair -- Imperial mathematician -- Intolerance -- Confrontation in Prague -- Bad faith -- Tycho and Rudolf -- The Mästlin affair -- The pot boils -- The death of Tycho Brahe -- In the crypt -- Revealing symptoms -- Thirteen hours -- The elixir -- The motive and the means -- Theft -- The three laws.".
- catalog extent "xii, 304 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0385508441".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Doubleday :".
- catalog spatial "Denmark".
- catalog subject "520/.92/2 B 22".
- catalog subject "Astronomers Denmark Biography.".
- catalog subject "Brahe, Tycho, 1546-1601 Death and burial.".
- catalog subject "Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630.".
- catalog subject "QB36.B8 G55 2004".
- catalog subject "Science History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Science, Renaissance.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The funeral -- A transcript of anguish -- Expulsion -- Mapping heaven -- The alchemist -- The exploding star -- An island of his own -- The tychonic system of the world -- Exile -- The secret of the universe -- Marriage -- The Ursus affair -- Imperial mathematician -- Intolerance -- Confrontation in Prague -- Bad faith -- Tycho and Rudolf -- The Mästlin affair -- The pot boils -- The death of Tycho Brahe -- In the crypt -- Revealing symptoms -- Thirteen hours -- The elixir -- The motive and the means -- Theft -- The three laws.".
- catalog title "Heavenly intrigue : Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the murder behind one of history's greatest scientific discoveries / Joshua Gilder and Anne-Lee Gilder.".
- catalog type "text".