Tycho & Kepler
| Titel: | Tycho & Kepler : the unlikely partnership that forever changed our understanding of the heavens / Kitty Ferguson |
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| Verfasser: | |
| Veröffentlicht: | New York : Walker, 2002 |
| Umfang: | XIV, 402 Seiten : Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten ; 21 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| RVK-Notation: | |
| ISBN: | 0802713904 |
| Hinweise zum Inhalt: |
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- Map: Tycho's Denmark
- p. ix
- Map: Tycho and Kepler's Europe
- p. xi
- Acknowledgments
- p. xiii
- Prologue
- p. 1
- 1.
- Legacies
- p. 7
- 2.
- Aristocrat by Birth, Astronomer by Nature
- p. 24
- 3.
- Behavior Unbecoming a Nobleman
- p. 39
- 4.
- Having the Best of Several Universes
- p. 57
- 5.
- The Isle of Hven
- p. 77
- 6.
- Worlds Apart
- p. 91
- 7.
- A Palace Observatory
- p. 105
- 8.
- Adelberg, Maulbronn, Uraniborg
- p. 126
- 9.
- Contriving Immortality
- p. 140
- 10.
- The Undermining of Human Endeavor
- p. 153
- 11.
- Years of Discontent
- p. 169
- 12.
- Geometry's Universe
- p. 181
- 13.
- Divine Right and Earthly Machination
- p. 200
- 14.
- Converging Paths
- p. 213
- 15.
- Contact
- p. 231
- 16.
- Prague Opens Her Arms
- p. 243
- 17.
- A Dysfunctional Collaboration
- p. 252
- 18.
- "Let Me Not Seem to Have Lived in Vain"
- p. 266
- 19.
- The Best of Times
- p. 286
- 20.
- Astronomia Nova
- p. 304
- 21.
- The Wheel of Fortune Creaks Around
- p. 321
- 22.
- An Unlikely Harmony
- p. 337
- 23.
- Measuring the Shadows
- p. 352
- Appendix 1
- Angular Distance
- p. 359
- Appendix 2
- Vocabulary of Astronomy
- p. 361
- Appendix 3
- Kepler's Use of Tycho's Observations of Mars
- p. 363
- Notes
- p. 369
- Bibliography
- p. 385
- Art Credits
- p. 389
- Index
- p. 391
