Johannes Kepler : the order of things /: the order of things. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Wolfgang Osterhage.
• Authors: Osterhage, Wolfgang
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (132 pages)
• Subjects: 520.92; Astronomers -- Germany -- Biography; Astronomers; Germany; Biographies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030468583
• Related ISBNs: 9783030468576
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