TYCHO & KEPLER.

Author: Ferguson, Kitty
Country: New York
Language: English
Year Published: 2002
No. of pages: 402
Illustrations: 17 Color Illustrations. 64 B&W Illustrations.
Binding: Hardbound with Jacket
Size: 8”x 6”
Weight: 2.00
ISBN: 802713904
Biblio/Bio: Index. Bibl.
Code: 5884

Price: $29.50

Set in a singularly turbulent and colorful era in European history, at the turning point when medieval gave way to modern, this book is about Tycho Brahe, the Danish nobleman and greatest naked-eye astronomer and his colleague, Johannes Kepler. It is both a highly original dual biography and masterful recreation of how science advances. From Tycho’s fabulous Uraniborg Observatory on an island off the Danish coast to the court of the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolph II; from the religious conflict of the Thirty Years’ War that rocked all of Europe to Kepler’s extraordinary leaps of understanding, Ferguson recounts a fascinating interplay of science and religion, politics and personality. Her insights recolor the established characters of Tycho and Kepler, and her book opens a rich window into our place in the universe.