Johannes Kepler

Kepler, Johannes - yōhäˈnəs kĕpˈlər, 1571–1630, German astronomer. From his student days at the Univ. of Tübingen, he was influenced by the Copernican teachings. From 1593 to 1598 he was professor of mathematics at Graz and while there wrote his Mysterium cosmographicum (1596). This work opened the way to friendly intercourse with Read More...

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The Discovery of Kepler's Laws: The Interaction of Science, Philosophy, and Religion
by Job S. J. Kozhamthadam. 316 pgs.

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part 1: Kepler's System of Thought

1: Kepler's Religious Ideas

2: Kepler's Philosophical Ideas

3: Kepler's Scientific Ideas

Part 2: The Discovery of the Laws

4: The Acceptance of Copernicanism

5: The Development of a Truly Heliocentric View

6: The Vicarious Hypothesis and Its Failure

7: The Final Break with Geocentrism

8: The Discovery of the Second Law

9: The Discovery of the First Law

Conclusion

Notes

Glossary of Select Technical Terms

Bibliography

Index

About the Author
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Groundbreaking Scientific Experiments, Inventions and Discoveries of the 17th Century ("Kepler's Theory of Planetary Motion" begins on p. 115)
by Michael Windelspecht. 271 pgs.

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The 17th century was a time of transition for the study of science and mathematics. The technological achievements of this time directly impacted both society and the future of science. This reference resource explores the major scientific and mathematical milestones of this era, and examines them from their scientific and sociological perspectives. Over fifty entries, arranged alphabetically, illustrate how this time period marked the first widespread application of experimentation and mathematics to the study of science--an exciting time brought to life through this unique exploration.

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Series Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Experiments, Inventions and Discoveries

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Appendix

Glossary of Technical Terms

Selected Bibliography

Subject Index

Name Index

About the Author
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The Story of Astronomy (Chap. 6 "Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler")
by Lloyd Motz, Jefferson Hane Weaver. 387 pgs.

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The Story of Astronomy

Preface

Contents

Chapter 1: The Origins of Astronomy

Chapter 2: The Ancient Cosmologies

Chapter 3: The Greek Philosophers and the Early Greek Astronomers

Chapter 4: From Aristarchus to Ptolemy: the Birth of Accurate Observational Astronomy

Chapter 5: The Revival of European Astronomy

Chapter 6: Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler

Chapter 7: Galileo, the Astronomical Telescope, and the Beginning of Modern Astronomy

Chapter 8: The Newtonian Era

Chapter 9: The Rise of Modern Astronomy

Chapter 10: Post-Newtonian Astronomy

Chapter 11: The Beginning of the New Age of Astronomy: beyond the Solar System

Chapter 12: Astronomy as a Branch of Physics

Chapter 13: The New Physics and Its Impact on Astronomy

Chapter 14: Relativity and Astronomy

Chapter 15: The Origin and Development of Astrophysics

Chapter 16: Stellar Evolution and the Beginning of Galactic Astronomy

Chapter 17: Beyond the Stars: the Galaxies

Chapter 18: Cosmology

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index
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The Book of the Cosmos: Imagining the Universe from Heraclitus to Hawking (Chap. 20 "This Art Unfolds the Wisdom of God: John Calvin, Johannes Kepler" and Chap. 26 "This Boat Which Is Our Earth: Johannes Kepler")
by Dennis Richard Danielson. 556 pgs.

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What is the cosmos? How did it come into being? How are we related to it, and what is our place in it? The Book of the Cosmos assembles for the first time in one volume the great minds of the Western world who have considered these questions from biblical times to the present. It is a book of many authors -- Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus, and Galileo are here, of course, in all their genius, but so are Edgar Allan Poe, Annie Jump Cannon (a "human computer" and lyrical classifier of stars), and Sir Martin Rees, who proposes an "ensemble of universes" of which ours happens to be among the most interesting.
In these pages the universe is made and unmade in a variety of configurations; it spins along on superstrings, teems with intelligent life, and could end without warning. The Book of the Cosmos provides a thrilling read to set the heart racing and the mind soaring.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: Telescopes for the Mind

Part One: Cosmological Origins

1: We Have Seen but Few of His Works

2: Twice into the Same River?

3: The Things of the Universe Are Not Sliced off with a Hatchet

4: Atoms and Empty Space

5: The Moving Image of Eternity

6: The Potency of Place

7: He Supposes the Earth to Revolve

8: A Geometrical Argument

9: No Erratic or Pointless Movement

10: Turning the Universe Upside Down

Part Two: Ptolemy, Middle Earth, Middle Ages

11: The Peculiar Nature of the Universe

12: The Weaknesses of the Hypotheses

13: Their Peculiar Behavior Confounds Mortals' Minds

14: We Consider Time a Thing Created

15: From This Point Hang the Heavens

16: If a Man Were in the Sky and Could See the Earth Clearly

17: A Single Universe in Which Each Star Influences Every Other

Part Three: Copernicus to Newton

18: Almost Contrary to Common Sense

19: The Poetic Structure of the World

20: This Art Unfolds the Wisdom of God

21: A Star Never Seen before Our Time

22: This Little Dark Star Wherein We Live

23: Innumerable Suns, and an Infinite Number of Earths

24: Neither Known nor Observed by Anyone before

25: Galileo and the Geometrization of Astronomical Space

26: This Boat Which Is Our Earth

27: The Two Books of God Agree with Each Other

28: They Hoist the Earth Up and Down like a Ball

29: A World in the Moon

30: A Very Liquid Heaven

31: The Eternal Silence of These Infinite Spaces

32: This Pendent World

33: But One Little Family of the Universe

34: Into the Celestial Spaces

35: Discernible Ends and Final Causes

36: The Planetarians, and This Small Speck of Dirt

Part Four: Unfurling Newton's Universe

37: A Signal of God

38: The Beautiful Pre-Established Order

39: An Event So Glorious to the Newtonian Doctrine of Gravity

40: A Voice from the Starry Heavens

41: This Most Surprising Zone of Light

42: How Fortunate Is This Globe!

43: To Become Adequately Copernican

44: Laboratories of the Universe

45: As Certain as the Planetary Orbits

46: The Intelligence of the Watch-Maker

47: Must We Then Reject the Infinitude of the Stars?

48: The Great Principle That Governs the Universe

49: The Unfailing Connection and Course of Events

50: The Primordial Particle

51: The Shadow! the Shadow!

52: Unraveled Starlight

53: Astronomy Still Young

Part Five: The Universe Re-Imagined

54: The Peculiar Interest of Mars

55: Cosmical Evolution

56: Cosmos without Peer and without Price

57: Curved Space and Poetry of the Universe

58: The Man in the Accelerated Chest

59: It Is Not True That "All Is Relative"

60: Spacetime Tells Matter How to Move

61: The Architecture of the Celestial Mansions

62: The Quickening Influence of the Universe

63: You Have Broken Newton's Back

64: The Realm of the Nebulae

65: Driven to Admit Anti-Chance

66: Did the Expansion Start from the Beginning?

67: This Big Bang Idea

Part Six: Beginnings and Ends

68: Incomprehensible Magnitude, Unimaginable Darkness

69: That All-But-Eternal Crimson Twilight

70: The Cosmic Oasis

71: The Very Womb of Life

72: The Urge to Trace the History of the Universe

73: To Transform the Universe on a Cosmological Scale

74: The No Boundary Condition

75: Prisons of Light

76: A Very Lumpy Universe

77: A Cosmic Archipelago

78: Cosmological Natural Selection

79: The Ultimate Free Lunch

80: Was There a Big Bang?

81: What We Cannot See and Yet Know Must Be There

82: Their Extravagant Smallness

83: Cosmic Dust-Bunnies

84: Mystery at the End of the Universe

85: Do the Heavens Declare?

Glossary

Further Reading

Copyright Acknowledgments

Index
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Magic Shadows: The Story of the Origin of Motion Pictures (Chap. V "Kepler and the Stars")
by Martin Quigley Jr. 194 pgs.

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FOREWORD

INTRODUCTION

I It Started with "A"

II Friar Bacon's Magic

III Da Vinci's Camera

IV Porta, First Screen Showman

V Kepler and the Stars

VI Kircher's 100th Art

VII Popularizing Kircher's Projector

VIII Musschenbroek and Motion

IX Phantasmagoria

X Dr. Paris' Toy

XI Plateau Creates Motion Pictures

XII The Baron's Projector

XIII The Langenheims of Philadelphia

XIV Marey and Movement

XV Edison's Peep-Show

XVI First Steps

XVII World Premieres

Appendix I MAGIC SHADOWS A Descriptive Chronology

Appendix II BIBLIOGRAPHY and Acknowledgements

Index
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The Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be (Chap. 3 "Kepler Laughed")
by Dana Mackenzie. 232 pgs.

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The first popular book to explain the dramatic theory behind the Moon's genesis This lively science history relates one of the great recent breakthroughs in planetary astronomy-a successful theory of the birth of the Moon. Science journalist Dana Mackenzie traces the evolution of this theory, one little known outside the scientific community: a Mars-sized object collided with Earth some four billion years ago, and the remains of this colossal explosion-the Big Splat-came together to form the Moon. Beginning with notions of the Moon in ancient cosmologies, Mackenzie relates the fascinating history of lunar speculation, moving from Galileo and Kepler to George Darwin (son of Charles) and the Apollo astronauts, whose trips to the lunar surface helped solve one of the most enigmatic mysteries of the night sky: who hung the Moon? Dana Mackenzie (Santa Cruz, CA) is a freelance science journalist. His articles have appeared in such magazines as Science, Discover, American Scientist, The Sciences, and New Scientist.

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Introduction: Genesis Revisited

1: A Highly Practical Stone

2: The Stone Star

3: Kepler Laughed

4: The Clockwork Solar System

5: Daughter Moon

6: Captive Moon

7: Sister Moon

8: Renaissance and Controversy

9: “a Little Science on the Moon”

10: When Worlds Collide

11: The Kona Consensus

12: Introducing Theia

Appendix: Did We Really Go to the Moon?

Glossary

References

Acknowledgments

Index
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The Many Faces of Science: An Introduction to Scientists, Values, and Society ("Kepler: Discovering the Real Motions of the Heavens" begins on p. 52)
by Henry Byerly, Leslie Stevenson. 290 pgs.

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This volume offers an introduction for science studies, science and society and science and human values. It explores a variety of topics with case studies on subjects such as HIV and AIDS, women in science, and psychology and the social sciences.

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Preface

Preface to the Second Edition

Introduction

1: How Science as We Know It Has Developed

2: Images of Science

3: What Motivates Scientists?

4: Intellectual Curiosity: Mathematical Patterns in Nature

5: Intellectual Curiosity: Experiment

6: Scientific Reputation, Scientific Influence, and Public Fame

7: The Utility of Science

8: Science and Money

9: Scientists and the Totalitarian State

10: Scientists and Public Policy

11: Science Applied to Human Beings

12: Science and Values

References

Index
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The Sleep Walkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the Universe ("The Young Kepler" begins on p. 225, "Tycho and Kepler" begins on p. 301, and "Kepler Depressed" begins on p. 344)
by Arthur Koestler. 626 pgs.

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Preface

Part One the Heroic Age

I Dawn

Ii the Harmony of the Spheres

Iii the Earth Adrift

Iv the Failure of Nerve

V the Divorce from Reality

Part Two Dark Interlude

I the Rectangular Universe

Ii the Walled-In Universe

Iii the Universe of the Schoolmen

Part Three the Timid Canon

I the Life of Copernicus

Ii the System of Copernicus

Part Four the Watershed

The Young Kepler

Ii the "Cosmic Mystery"

Iii Growing Pains

Iv Tycho De Brahe

V Tycho and Kepler

Vi the Giving of the Laws

Vii Kepler Depressed

Viii Kepler and Galileo

Ix Chaos and Harmony

X Computing a Bride

Xi the Last Years

Part Five the Parting of the Ways

I the Burden of Proof

Ii the Trial of Galileo

Iii the Newtonian Synthesis

Epilogue

Acknowledgements

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index
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From Myth to Modern Mind: A Study of the Origins and Growth of Scientific Thought, Vol. 2 ("Johannes Kepler" begins on p. 74)
by Richard H. Schlagel. 584 pgs.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Illustrations

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

NOTES

Chapter I: THE PRECURSORS OF MODERN SCIENCE

NOTES

Chapter II: THE RISE OF MODERN SCIENCE

NOTES

Chapter III: GALILEO GALILEI: THE FATHER OF MODERN SCIENCE THE PREPARATORY YEARS OF INVESTIGATION

NOTES

Chapter IV: GALILEO GALILEI: FATHER OF MODERN SCIENCE THE MOMENTOUS YEARS OF ACHIEVEMENT

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Chapter V: CREATION OF THE CORPUSCULAR-MECHANISTIC WORLD VIEW

NOTES

Chapter VI: A BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF NEWTON

NOTES

Chapter VII: NEWTON'S REVOLUTION

CONCLUSION

Chapter VIII: THE NEWTONIAN LEGACY

NOTES

Chapter IX: THE ORIGINS OF CHEMISTRY AND MODERN ATOMISM

NOTES

Chapter X: PROBING THE INTERIOR OF THE ATOM

NOTES

Chapter XI: ATOMIC STRUCTURE AND QUANTUM MECHANICS

NOTES

EPILOGUE

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX
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Measuring the Universe: Our Historic Quest to Chart the Horizons of Space and Time (Discussion of Johannes Kepler begins on p. 69)
by Kitty Ferguson. 342 pgs.

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More than 2,000 years ago, Eratosthenes, in Alexandria, used a stick, a hole in the ground, sunllght at summer solstice, and elementary geometry to measure the circumference of the Earth with surprising accuracy, long before anyone was able to circumnavigate it. Today, scientists are attempting to measure the entire universe and to determine its origin. Although the methods have changed, the quest to chart the horizons of space and time continues to be one of the great adventures of science. Measuring the Universe is an eloquent chronicle of the men and women– from Aristarchus to Cassini, Sir Isaac Newton to Henrietta Leavitt and Stephen Hawking–who have gradually unlocked the mysteries of "how far" and in so doing have changed our ideas about the size and nature of the universe and our place in it. Kitty Ferguson reveals their methods to have been as inventive as their results were–and are–eye-opening. Advances such as Copernicus's revolutionary insights about the arrangement of the solar system, William Herschel's meticulous creation of the first three-dimensional map of the universe, and Edwin Hubble's astonishing discovery that the universe is expanding have by turns revolutionized our concept of the universe. Connecting centuries of breakthroughs with the political and cultural events surrounding them, Ferguson makes astronomy part of the sweep of history. To measure the seemingly immeasurable, scientists have always pushed the boundaries of the imagination–today, for example, facing the paradox of an ever-expanding universe that doesn't appear to expand into anything. In Kitty Fergeson’s skillfill hands, the unimaginable becomes accessible and the splendid quest something we all can share.

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Measuring the Universe: Our Historic Quest to Chart the Horizons of Space and Time

Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue: Tilting with Windmills {1951}

Chapter 1: A Sphere with a View {400-100 B. C.}

Chapter 2: Heavenly Revolutions {100-1600 A. D.}

Chapter 3: Dressing Up the Naked Eye {1564-1642}

Chapter 4: An Orbit with a View {1630-1900}

Chapter 5: Upscale Architecture {1750-1958}

Chapter 6: Coming Apart in All Directions {1929-92}

Chapter 7: Deciphering Ancient Light {1946-99}

Chapter 8: The Quest for Omega {1930-99}

Chapter 9: Lost Horizons

Epilogue: Magnificent Enigma

Notes

Glossary

Index
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Astronomy through the Ages: The Story of the Human Attempt to Understand the Universe (Discussion of Johannes Kepler begins on p. 62)
by Robert Wilson. 304 pgs.

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Free of mathematics and complex graphs, Wilson nevertheless explains with care and clarity deep concepts of space and time, of relativity and quantum mechanics, and of the origin and nature of the Universe.

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List of Illustrations

Preface

Part I: The Early Developments in Astronomy

Chapter One: The Beginning

Chapter Two: Ancient Astronomy

Chapter Three: The Greeks

Chapter Four: The Interlude

Chapter Five: The Renaissance

Part II: The Era of the Telescope

Chapter Six: The Classical Post-Newtonian Period

Chapter Seven: The New Natural Philosophy

Chapter Eight: Astronomy in the Early Twentieth Century

Part III: Modern Astronomy

Chapter Nine: The New Astronomies

Chapter Ten: Probing the Solar System

Chapter Eleven: The Stars-Their Birth, Life and Death

Chapter Twelve: The Great Post-War Astronomical Discoveries

Chapter Thirteen: The Nature, Origin and Evolution of the Universe

Epilogue

Glossary

Bibliography

Index
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Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1720: A Biographical Dictionary ("Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630)" begins on p. 203)
by Christopher Baker. 450 pgs.

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This book--the sixth volume in The Great Cultural Eras of the Western World series--provides information on more than 400 individuals who created and played a role in the era's intellectual and cultural activity. The book's focus is on cultural figures--those whose inventions and discoveries contributed to the scientific revolution, those whose line of reasoning contributed to secularism, groundbreaking artists like Rembrandt, lesser known painters, and contributors to art and music.

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Introduction

Chronology

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F

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K

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M

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O-P

Q-R

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Appendix A

Appendix B

Bibliography

Index

About the Editor and Contributors
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Kepler's Conjecture: How Some of the Greatest Minds in History Helped Solve One of the Oldest Math Problems in the World
by George G. Szpiro. 296 pgs.

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Preface

1: Cannonballs and Melons

2: The Puzzle of the Dozen Spheres

3: Fire Hydrants and Soccer Players

4: Thue's Two Attempts and Fejes-Tóth's Achievement

5: Twelve's Company, Thirteen's a Crowd

6: Nets and Knots

7: Twisted Boxes

8: No Dancing at This Congress

9: The Race for the Upper Bound

10: Right Angles for Round Spaces

11: Wobbly Balls and Hybrid Stars

12: Simplex, Cplex, and Symbolic Mathematics

13: But Is It Really a Proof?

14: Beehives Again

15: This Is Not an Epilogue

Mathematical Appendixes

Bibliography

Index

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