LEADER 04095nam 22006015 450 001 9910908375403321 005 20250808093401.0 010 $a9789402422504$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9789402422481 024 7 $a10.1007/978-94-024-2250-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31787951 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31787951 035 $a(CKB)36638280800041 035 $a(OCoLC)1472979856 035 $a(DE-He213)978-94-024-2250-4 035 $a(EXLCZ)9936638280800041 100 $a20241120d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aReading the Mind of God $eJohannes Kepler and the Reform of Astronomy /$fedited by A.E.L. Davis, J. V. Field, T. J. Mahoney 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aDordrecht :$cSpringer Netherlands :$cImprint: Springer,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (426 pages) 225 1 $aAstronomy and Planetary Sciences,$x2366-0090 311 08$aPrint version: Davis, A. E. L. Reading the Mind of God Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands,c2024 9789402422481 327 $aKepler?s place in the history of astronomy -- Religion and natural philosophy -- Late Humanism -- The geometrical cosmos -- The occult sciences -- Kepler?s astrology -- Tycho Brahe and observational astronomy -- Beginning the quest for physical causes -- Kepler?s theoretical astronomy: the laws of planetary motion -- Kepler?s contributions to optics -- Kepler and Galileo: Copernican cosmology, telescopes and comets -- The Rudolphine Tables -- Kepler?s contributions to mathematics -- Working continuously: Kepler?s investigations into fluid mechanics -- 'A Warning to Astronomers' -- Somnium -- Kepler in Translation -- Kepler?s personality and life -- Epilogue: Kepler and the historians -- A Kepler Chronology. 330 $aThis volume provides a wide-ranging introduction to Kepler?s work, with essays on his religion, his cosmological theories, his work in astronomy, astrology, optics and mathematics and his interactions with Tycho Brahe and Galileo Galilei. Kepler is a major figure in the history of science. His laws of planetary motion overthrew a tradition, going back as far as the ancient Greeks, of constructing the paths of planets by combinations of circles; and the derivation of the laws was revolutionary in the way it relied upon detailed agreement with observations. Moreover, the laws explicitly relate the motion and path of each planet to the Sun. Thus, when the tables that Kepler based upon the laws proved to be highly reliable over many decades, this played a crucial part in making heliocentrism acceptable. And many years after Kepler?s death the laws themselves played an important part in Newton?s derivation of the inverse square law of gravitation in his Principia (1687). In this respect, Kepler can look ?modern?. But his work is grounded in his religious belief that the Universe is the visible expression of the nature of the God who created it. This book, whose chapters are written by leading scholars, is primarily addressed to undergraduate and graduate students of science and the history of science but will also appeal to the general reader with an interest in the history of science. 410 0$aAstronomy and Planetary Sciences,$x2366-0090 606 $aAstronomy 606 $aScience$xHistory 606 $aMathematics 606 $aAstronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences 606 $aHistory of Science 606 $aMathematics 615 0$aAstronomy. 615 0$aScience$xHistory. 615 0$aMathematics. 615 14$aAstronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences. 615 24$aHistory of Science. 615 24$aMathematics. 676 $a520.92 700 $aDavis$b A. E. L.$f1928-2020.$01860310 701 $aField$b Judith Veronica$0205201 701 $aMahoney$b T. J$01775855 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910908375403321 996 $aReading the Mind of God$94465068 997 $aUNINA