Composition of Kepler's Astronomia nova
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Astronomy
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Celestial spheres
Circular motion
Circular orbit
Circumference
Copernican heliocentrism
Copernican system
Cosmography
David Fabricius
Dodecahedron
Earth's orbit
Eccentric anomaly
Ephemeris
Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae
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Exoplanet
Explanation
Galileo Galilei
Geocentric model
Geometry
Harmonices Mundi
Heliocentrism
Hypothesis
Icosahedron
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Praetorius
Jupiter
Longitude
Lunar theory
Mathematician
Mean anomaly
Mean motion
Methodology
Michael Maestlin
Mysterium Cosmographicum
Natural philosophy
Nicolaus Copernicus
Octahedron
Orbit
Orbit of Mars
Owen Gingerich
Perihelion and aphelion
Philosopher
Physicist
Planetary system
Proportionality (mathematics)
Prosthaphaeresis
Prutenic Tables
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- ISBN 9780691007380
- Weight: 624g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 18 Nov 2001
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This is one of the most important studies in decades on Johannes Kepler, among the towering figures in the history of astronomy. Drawing extensively on Kepler's correspondence and manuscripts, James Voelkel reveals that the strikingly unusual style of Kepler's magnum opus, Astronomia nova (1609), has been traditionally misinterpreted. Kepler laid forth the first two of his three laws of planetary motion in this work. Instead of a straightforward presentation of his results, however, he led readers on a wild goose chase, recounting the many errors and false starts he had experienced. This had long been deemed a "confessional" mirror of the daunting technical obstacles Kepler faced. As Voelkel amply demonstrates, it is not. Voelkel argues that Kepler's style can be understood only in the context of the circumstances in which the book was written. Starting with Kepler's earliest writings, he traces the development of the astronomer's ideas of how the planets were moved by a force from the sun and how this could be expressed mathematically. And he shows how Kepler's once broader research program was diverted to a detailed examination of the motion of Mars.
Above all, Voelkel shows that Kepler was well aware of the harsh reception his work would receive--both from Tycho Brahe's heirs and from contemporary astronomers; and how this led him to an avowedly rhetorical pseudo-historical presentation of his results. In treating Kepler at last as a figure in time and not as independent of it, this work will be welcomed by historians of science, astronomers, and historians.
James R. Voelkel is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History of Science. Medicine, and Technology at The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Johannes Kepler and the New Astronomy.
