The nobleman and his housedog : Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler : the strange partnership that revolutionised science /
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| Author / Creator: | Ferguson, Kitty. |
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| Imprint: | London : Review, 2002. |
| Description: | x, 372 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4652255 |
Table of Contents:
- Map: Tycho's Denmark
- Map: Tycho's and Kepler's Europe
- 1. Legacies
- 2. Aristocrat by Birth, Astronomer by Nature
- 3. Behaviour Unbecoming a Nobleman
- 4. Having the Best of Several Universes
- 5. The Isle of Hven
- 6. Worlds Apart
- 7. A Palace Observatory
- 8. Adelberg, Maulbronn, Uraniborg
- 9. Contriving Immortality
- 10. The Undermining of Human Endeavour
- 11. Years of Discontent
- 12. Geometry's Universe
- 13. Divine Right and Earthly Machination
- 14. Converging Paths
- 15. Contact
- 16. Prague Opens Her Arms
- 17. A Disfunctional Collaboration
- 18. 'Let me not seem to have lived in vain'
- 19. The Best of Times
- 20. Astronomia nova
- 21. The Wheel of Fortune Creaks Around
- 22. An Unlikely Harmony
- 23. Measuring the Shadows
- App. 1. Angular Distance
- App. 2. The Vocabulary of Tycho's and Kepler's Astronomy.
