04068nam a22005055i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020003700100024003500137050001200172072001500184072002300199072001400222245015300236250001800389264006700407300006700474336002600541337002600567338003600593347002400629490004900653505073500702520141801437650002202855650002902877650002402906650005202930650003102982650002403013700008203037700008103119700008303200710003403283773002603317776003603343776003603379830005603415856004603471912001403517912001403531999001703545978-94-024-2250-4DE-He21320251030113320.0cr nn 008mamaa241120s2024    ne |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97894024225049978-94-024-2250-47 a10.1007/978-94-024-2250-42doi 4aQB1-991 7aPG2bicssc 7aSCI0040002bisacsh 7aPG2thema10aReading the Mind of Godh[electronic resource] :bJohannes Kepler and the Reform of Astronomy /cedited by A.E.L. Davis, J. V. Field, T. J. Mahoney.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aDordrecht :bSpringer Netherlands :bImprint: Springer,c2024.  aXXIX, 405 p. 109 illus., 27 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aAstronomy and Planetary Sciences,x2366-00900 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.  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. 0aAstronomy.972908 0aSciencexHistory.965232 0aMathematics.96552314aAstronomy, Cosmology and Space Sciences.97391724aHistory of Science.96610124aMathematics.9655231 aDavis, A.E.L.eeditor.4edt4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt9877931 aField, J. V.eeditor.4edt4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt9877941 aMahoney, T. J.eeditor.4edt4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt9877952 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978940242248108iPrinted edition:z9789402422498 0aAstronomy and Planetary Sciences,x2366-009098779640uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-2250-4  aZDB-2-PHA  aZDB-2-SXP  c65084d65084