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Heavenly intrigue : Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the murder behind one of history's greatest scientific discoveries

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Heavenly intrigue : Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the murder behind one of history's greatest scientific discoveries / Joshua Gilder and Anne-Lee Gilder.
Author
Gilder, Joshua.
Publication
New York : Doubleday, 2004.
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Gilder, Anne-Lee.
Description
xii, 304 p. : ill., maps; 22 cm.
Subjects
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  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [286]-296) and index.
Contents
The funeral -- A transcript of anguish -- Expulsion -- Mapping heaven -- The alchemist -- The exploding star -- An island of his own -- The tychonic system of the world -- Exile -- The secret of the universe -- Marriage -- The Ursus affair -- Imperial mathematician -- Intolerance -- Confrontation in Prague -- Bad faith -- Tycho and Rudolf -- The Mästlin affair -- The pot boils -- The death of Tycho Brahe -- In the crypt -- Revealing symptoms -- Thirteen hours -- The elixir -- The motive and the means -- Theft -- The three laws.
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JSD 05-215
ISBN
0385508441
LCCN
  • 2003067483
  • 9780385508445
OCLC
53469663
Author
Gilder, Joshua.
Title
Heavenly intrigue : Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the murder behind one of history's greatest scientific discoveries / Joshua Gilder and Anne-Lee Gilder.
Imprint
New York : Doubleday, 2004.
Edition
1st ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [286]-296) and index.
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Gilder, Anne-Lee.
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JSD 05-215
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