Johannes Kepler [E-Book] : The Order of Things / by Wolfgang Osterhage.
This book traces the development of Kepler's ideas along with his unsteady wanderings in a world dominated by religious turmoil. Johannes Kepler, like Galileo, was a supporter of the Copernican heliocentric world model. From an early stage, his principal objective was to discover "the worl...
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| Personal Name(s): | Osterhage, Wolfgang, author |
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1st edition 2020. |
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Cham :
Springer,
2020
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| Physical Description: |
IX, 132 pages 24 illustrations, 10 illustrations in color (online resource) |
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englisch |
| ISBN: |
9783030468583 |
| DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-030-46858-3 |
| Series Title: |
Springer Biographies
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- Introduction: Scope
- The Order of Things: the quest for world harmony
- Time and Space: historic context and political and economic situation in Middle Europe
- Childhood and Youth (1571-1594): studies and exams in southern Germany; first encounters with Greek mysticism and the work of Copernicus
- Graz -professorship, "Mysterium cosmographicum", correspondence with Galileo
- Prague - cooperation and discord with Tycho Brahe, Mars data, Tabulae Rudolphinae, "Astronomia Nova", first and second law of planetary movements, various publications, the telescope
- Linz - torn between Lutheranism, Calvinism and Catholicism, "Harmonices Mundi", third law of planetary movements, logarithms
- Between Ulm and Prague - completion of the Tabulae Rudolphinae, encounter with Wallenstein, prognostica
- Sagan - court astrologer; death in Regensburg
- The Order of Things Revisited - the dismantling of world harmony, deconstruction and back to the unification attempts of modern physics.