Tycho & Kepler : the unlikely partnership that forever changed our understanding of the heavens /: the unlikely partnership that forever changed our understanding of the heavens. ([2002])

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Tycho and Kepler
• Further Information: Note: Kitty Ferguson.
• Other Names: Ferguson, Kitty
• Contents: Legacies -- Aristocrat by birth, astronomer by nature -- Behavior unbecoming a nobleman -- Having the best of several universes -- Isle of Hven -- Worlds apart -- Palace observatory -- Adelberg, Maulbronn, Uraniborg -- Contriving immortality -- Undermining of human endeavor -- Years of discontent -- Geometry's universe -- Divine right and earthly machination -- Converging paths -- Contact -- Prague opens her arms -- Dysfunctional collaboration -- "Let me not seem to have lived in vain" -- Best of times -- Astronomia nova -- Wheel of fortune creaks around -- Unlikely harmony -- 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.
• Publisher Details: New York : Walker & Co
• Publication Date: 2002
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (some color), maps
• Subjects: 520/.92/24; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical; Astronomers -- Denmark -- Biography; Astronomers -- Germany -- Biography; Kepler's laws; Planetary theory; Astronomers; Kepler's laws; Planetary theory; Astronomes -- Danemark -- Biographies; Astronomes -- Allemagne -- Biographies; Kepler, Lois de; Théorie planétaire; Astronomie -- 16e siècle -- 17e siècle; Astronomers -- Biography; Astrophysics; Biographie; SCIENCE / Astronomy; Astronomy, space & time; Denmark; Germany; Biography; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781448167234
• Related ISBNs: 144816723X; 0802713904; 9780802713902
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-387) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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