Kepler And The Universe

Author : David K. Love
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781633881075

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A contemporary of Galileo and a forerunner of Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was a pioneering German scientist and a pivotal figure in the history of astronomy. This colorful, well-researched biography brings the man and his scientific discoveries to life, showing how his contributions were every bit as important as those of Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton. It was Kepler who first advocated the completely new concept of a physical force emanating from the sun that controls the motion of the planets--today we call this gravity and take it for granted. He also established that the orbits of the planets were elliptical in shape and not circular. And his three laws of planetary motion are still used by contemporary astronomers and space scientists. The author focuses not just on these and other momentous breakthroughs but also on Kepler's arduous life, punctuated by frequent tragedy and hardships. His first wife died young, and eight of the twelve children he fathered succumbed to disease in infancy or childhood. He was frequently caught up in the religious persecutions of the day. His mother narrowly escaped death when she was accused of being a witch. Intermingling historical and personal details of Kepler's life with lucid explanations of his scientific research, this book presents a sympathetic portrait of the man and underscores the critical importance of Kepler's discoveries in the history of astronomy.

Author : Johannes Kepler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015017156384

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The Secret of the Universe by Johannes Kepler Pdf

Author : Ron Miller
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781467716628

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Recentering the Universe by Ron Miller Pdf

"This title shows how a group of European scientists, in the span of roughly one hundred and fifty years (early 1500s to the mid-1600s) and working through direct observation, overturned the centuries' old accepted view of a geocentric universe. Through their research and writings, they proposed and described a new order of things in which the Earth orbits the Sun. In so doing, these scientists--Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, Galileo Galilei, and Isaac Newton--challenged the accepted wisdom of the ages, specifically that of the Catholic Church. Galileo was accordingly tried and condemned to house arrest in 1633; the works of many others were banned. Not until the late 1900s did the Church revisit the Galileo case, ultimately concluding that it had made a mistake in suggesting that humans must accept biblical cosmology in literal terms. The book also includes a fascinating chapter exploring sects such as the 19th-century Muggletonians, the 20th-century Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion, and the 21st-century Association of Biblical Astronomy, all of which insist(ed) on variations of a geocentric cosmology."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Ron Miller
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761358855

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Recentering the Universe by Ron Miller Pdf

In the sixth century B.C.E., the Greek philosopher Anaximander theorized that Earth was at the center of the cosmos. That idea became ingrained in scientific thinking and Christian religious beliefs for more than one thousand years. Defiance of church doctrine could mean death, so no one dared dispute this long-accepted idea. No one except a handful of courageous scientists. In the 1500s and 1600s, men like Nicolaus Copernicus, Johanned Kepler, Galileo Galilei, and Isaac Newton began to ask questions. What if Earth actually orbited the sun, instead of the other way around? What if the universe was much bigger than anyone imagined? These scientists risked their reputations?even their lives?to challenge the very heart of Catholic dogma and scientific tradition. Yet, in less than 200 years, their radical thinking overturned theories that had lasted more than a millennium. Join these bold thinkers on the journey of discovery that forever changed our understanding of the cosmos.

Author : Kitty Ferguson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781448167234

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Tycho and Kepler by Kitty Ferguson Pdf

The extraordinary, unlikely tale of Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler and their enormous contribution to astronomy and understanding of the cosmos is one of the strangest stories in the history of science. Kepler was a poor, devoutly religious teacher with a genius for mathematics. Brahe was an arrogant, extravagant aristocrat who possessed the finest astronomical instruments and observations of the time, before the telescope. Both espoused theories that seem off-the-wall to modern minds, but their fateful meeting in Prague in 1600 was to change the future of science. Set in one of the most turbulent and colourful eras in European history, when medieval was giving way to modern, Tycho and Kepler is a double biography of these two remarkable men.

Author : J. V. Field
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472510785

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Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology by J. V. Field Pdf

Kepler is a key figure in the development of modern astronomy. His work is also important in the history of philosophy and methodology of science as a whole. The present study is concerned with one of Kepler's major preoccupations, namely his search for the geometrical plan according to which God created the Universe. The author discusses how Kepler's cosmological theories, which embrace music and astrology as well as astronomy, are related to his other work. The subject will be of great interest to historians of science, mathematicians and astronomers as well as to historians of the late Renaissance.

Author : Joshua Gilder,Anne-Lee Gilder
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400031764

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Heavenly Intrigue by Joshua Gilder,Anne-Lee Gilder Pdf

Heavenly Intrigue is the fascinating, true account of the seventeenth-century collaboration between Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe that revolutionized our understanding of the universe–and ended in murder.One of history’s greatest geniuses, Kepler laid the foundations of modern physics with his revolutionary laws of planetary motion. But his beautiful mind was beset by demons. Born into poverty and abuse, half-blinded by smallpox, he festered with rage, resentment, and a longing for worldly fame. Brahe, his mentor, was a flamboyant aristocrat who had spent forty years mapping the heavens with unprecedented accuracy–but he refused to share his data with Kepler. With Brahe’s untimely death in Prague in 1601, rumors flew across Europe that he had been murdered. But it took twentieth-century forensics to uncover the poison in his remains, and the detective work of Joshua and Anne-Lee Gilder to identify the prime suspect–the ambitious, envy-ridden Kepler himself. A fast-paced, true-life account that reads like a thriller, Heavenly Intrigue is a remarkable feat of historical re-creation.

Author : Wolfgang Osterhage
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030468583

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Johannes Kepler by Wolfgang Osterhage Pdf

This book traces the development of Kepler’s ideas along with his unsteady wanderings in a world dominated by religious turmoil. Johannes Kepler, like Galileo, was a supporter of the Copernican heliocentric world model. From an early stage, his principal objective was to discover “the world behind the world”, i.e. to identify the underlying order and the secrets that make the world function as it does: the hidden world harmony. Kepler was driven both by his religious belief and Greek mysticism, which he found in ancient mathematics. His urge to find a construct encompassing the harmony of every possible aspect of the world – including astronomy, geometry and music – is seen as a manifestation of a deep human desire to bring order to the apparent chaos surrounding our existence. This desire continues to this day as we search for a theory that will finally unify and harmonise the forces of nature.

Author : Johannes Kepler
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Science
ISBN : 0871692090

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The Harmony of the World by Johannes Kepler Pdf

The authors have presented and interpreted Johannes Kepler's Latin text to English readers by putting it into the kind of clear but earnest language they suppose Kepler would have used if he had been writing today.

Author : Judith Veronica Field
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1988-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226248232

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Kepler's Geometrical Cosmology by Judith Veronica Field Pdf

The work of Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), regarded by many as the founder of modern astronomy, is also historically important to the philosophy and methodology of science as a whole. While most studies of Kepler have concentrated on his astronomical work, particularly his laws describing the revolutions of the planets, the. V. Field focuses on one of Kepler's major preoccupations, his search for the geometrical plan according to which God created teh universe. She demonstrates how Kepler's cosmological theories, which embrace music and astrology as well as astronomy, relate to his other work. Drawing on the whole body of Kepler's writings, Field traces the impact of Plato, Euclid, and Proclus on his thinking, as well as the influence of his contemporaries Galileo and Robert Fludd. Kepler has suffered from a dual image as both hero of science and eccentric mystagogue. Field's sound scholarship provides a more complete picture of the man and his work that will be of value to historians of science, mathematics, philosophy, and the late Renaissance.

Author : Stuart A. Kallen
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0805044787

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Exploring the Origins of the Universe by Stuart A. Kallen Pdf

Discusses various beliefs about the origin and nature of the universe and the studies of such scientists as Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Einstein, who have advanced our understanding of the universe.

Author : Johannes Kepler
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 101540202X

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The Harmonies of the World by Johannes Kepler Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Alexandre Koyre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135028343

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The Astronomical Revolution by Alexandre Koyre Pdf

Originally published in English in 1973. This volume traces the development of the revolution which so drastically altered man’s view of the universe in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The "astronomical revolution" was accomplished in three stages, each linked with the work of one man. With Copernicus, the sun became the centre of the universe. With Kepler, celestial dynamics replaced the kinematics of circles and spheres used by Copernicus. With Borelli the unification of celestial and terrestrial physics was completed by abandonment of the circle in favour the straight line to infinity.

Author : Alexandre Koyré
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0486270955

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The Astronomical Revolution by Alexandre Koyré Pdf

Lucid study illuminates contributions of three great pioneers in astronomy whose 16th- and 17th-century work transformed the human conception of the universe. Includes key passages from original works. 59 illustrations.

Author : Fred Bortz
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781477718056

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Johannes Kepler and the Three Laws of Planetary Motion by Fred Bortz Pdf

Johannes Kepler is a fascinating man who would revolutionize humanity's conception of the cosmos and their place within it. He would replace the Ptolemaic system with his three laws that described the orbital motion of the planets around the Sun. This scientist's work continues to inform and facilitate modern advances in technology, astronomy, and astrophysics. In addition to being an enthralling life and times account of a great thinker, this biography also supports Common Core standards for the reading of biographies, historical and scientific accounts, the analyzing of the relationship between primary and secondary sources, and citing evidence to support that analysis.