The Nobleman and His Housedog

Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler - The Strange Partnership That Revolutionised Science

Kitty Ferguson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2002
Headline Review (Verlag)
978-0-7472-7022-5 (ISBN)

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The meeting of Kepler and Brahe in Prague in 1600 led to an extraordinary, if uneasy, alliance which eventually resulted in a huge leap forward in the understanding of astronomy. This book tells the story of a major watershed in the history of human thought.

Johannes Kepler was an obsessive, devout teacher of astronomy, and Tycho Brahe was a cruel, extravagant aristocrat who believed the sun orbited the Earth. Kepler's analytical abilities were said to be second to none, while Brahe was one of the best observational astronomers of all time. Their meeting in Prague in 1600 led to an extraordinary, if uneasy, alliance which eventually resulted in a huge leap forward in the understanding of astronomy. Together they produced the first three laws of planetary motion. This book tells the story of a major watershed in the history of human thought.

Kitty Ferguson is a highly acclaimed popular science writer and lecturer, with a special interest in physics and cosmology.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.5.2002
Zusatzinfo	50 diagrams, 8 colour photos
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	226 x 154 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Weltraum / Astronomie
	Geisteswissenschaften
	Naturwissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-7472-7022-8 / 0747270228
ISBN-13	978-0-7472-7022-5 / 9780747270225
Zustand	Neuware