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Tycho & Kepler
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Tycho & Kepler (2002) (edit title/settings)

The Unlikely Partnership That Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens

by Kitty Ferguson (Author) (edit contributors)

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On his deathbed in 1601, the greatest naked-eye astronomer, Tycho Brahe, told his young colleague, Johannes Kepler, "Let me not have lived in vain." For more than thirty years, Tycho had made meticulous observations of planetary movements and the positions of the stars, from which he developed... read more

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THE ORIGIN OF the Danish castle Knutstorps Borg-in what was once part of Denmark but is now southwest Sweden-pre-dates written and even oral records.

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Map: Tycho's Denmark
Map: Tycho and Kepler's Europe
Acknowledgments

Prologue
1. Legacies
2. Aristocrat by Birth, Astronomer by Nature
3. Behavior Unbecoming a Nobleman
4. Having the Best of Several Universe
5. The Isle of Hven
6. Worlds Apart
7. A Palace Observatory
8. Adelberg, Maulbronn, Uraniborg
9. Contriving Immortality
10. The Undermining of Human Endeavor
11. Years of Discontent
12. Geometry's Universe
13. Divine Right and Earthly Machinations
14. Converging Paths
15. Contact
16. Prague Opens Her Arms
17. A Dysfunctional 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

Appendix 1: Angular Distance
Appendix 2: Vocabulary of Astronomy
Appendix 3: Kepler's Use of Tycho's Observations of Mars

Notes
Bibliography
Art Credits
Index

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  1. Kitty Ferguson (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Walker & Co.
Country: USA
Publication Date: 2002
ISBN: 0802713904
Page Count: 402

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  • Library of Congress: QB36.B8 F47 2002
  • Dewey: 520.922

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