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The astronomer and the witch : Johannes Kepler's fight for his mother /
First edition.Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Cover ; The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for his Mother ; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents ; Timeline of Key Dates in Johannes Keplerś Life and Major Publications, 1571-1620; Graz; Prague; Linz; Note on Dates; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Maps; Prologue ; Introduction ; 1: Katharina's Life; 2: A Lutheran Court; 3: The Year of the Witches; 4: Kepler's Strategies; 5: A Family Responds; 6: Movements of the Soul; 7: The Trial Continues; 8: Other Witches; 9: Katharina's Imprisonment; 10: Kepler's Return; 11: The Defence; 12: The Trial Ends; 13: Kepler's Dream.…”
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Spatio-temporal design : advances in efficient data acquisition
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Philosophie in Deutschland zwischen Reformation und Aufklärung 1550-1650
2. Aufl. reprint 2015.Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Das philosophische Weltbild Johannes Keplers --…”
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Philosophie nach Kant Neue Wege zum Verständnis von Kants Transzendental- und Moralphilosophie
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Science, reading, and Renaissance literature : the art of making knowledge, 1580-1670
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: making early modern science and literature; 1 Model worlds: Philip Sidney, William Gilbert, and the experiment of worldmaking; 2 From embryology to parthenogenesis: the birth of the writer in Edmund Spenser and William Harvey; 3 Reading through Galileo's telescope: Johannes Kepler's dream for reading knowledge; 4 Books written of the wonders of these glasses: Thomas Hobbes, Robert Hooke, and Margaret Cavendish's theory of reading; Afterward: fiction and the Sokal hoax; Notes; Index.…”
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Kepler's New Star (1604) Context and Controversy.
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Krabbe on Accuracy and Authority in Early Modern Germany -- Chapter 5 Stars, Crystals and Courts: Johannes Kepler and Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt…”
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The faith of scientists in their own words
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) -- Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626) -- Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) -- Isaac Newton (1643-1727) -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882) -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955) -- Alfred North Whithead (1861-1947) -- Scientists of our time. …”
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Measuring shadows : Kepler's optics of invisibility
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Kepler's philosophy and the new astronomy
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In the grip of the distant universe : the science of inertia
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…All matter instantaneously senses all other matter in the universe -- ch. 2. Johannes Kepler -- The astronomer who coined the word inertia -- ch. 3. …”
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Least action principle of crystal formation of dense packing type and Kepler's conjecture
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Classical Traditions in Science Fiction.
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…Cover; Series; Classical Traditions in Science Fiction; Copyright; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Introduction: The Past Is an Undiscovered Country; Part I SF's Rosy-Fingered Dawn; 1 The Lunar Setting of Johannes Kepler's Somnium, Science Fiction's Missing Link; 2 Lucretius, Lucan, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; 3 Virgil in Jules Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth; 4 Mr. …”
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Tycho Brahe and the measure of the heavens
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Sous la lumière, les hommes : 30 opticiens qui ont fait l'histoire
Published 2014Table of Contents: “…FACE""; ""AVANT-PROPOS""; ""Les génies bâtisseurs""; ""Christiaan Huygens""; ""Augustin Fresnel""; ""Isaac Newton""; ""James Clerk Maxwell""; ""Abu Ali Al-Hasan Ibn Al-Hasan Ibn Al-Haytham, dit Alhazen""; ""Roger Bacon""; ""Les expériences fondatrices""; ""Thomas Young""; ""Armand Hippolyte, Louis Fizeau""; ""Heinrich Rudolf Hertz""; ""Albert Abraham Michelson""; ""Maurice Paul Auguste, Charles Fabry""; ""Jean-Baptiste Alfred Perot""; ""David Brewster""; ""Les astronomes visionnaires""; ""Johannes Kepler""; ""Jean Bernard Léon Foucault""; ""Joseph von Fraunhofer""…”
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The Encyclopedia Britannica guide to the 100 most influential scientists : the most important scientists from ancient Greece to the present day
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…Introduction; Thales of Miletus; Pythagoras; Hippocrates; Plato; Aristotle; Euclid; Archimedes; Pliny the Elder; Ptolemy; Galen of Pergamum; Al-Khwarizmi; Avicenna; Roger Bacon; Leonardo da Vinci; Nicolaus Copernicus; Paracelsus; Andreas Vesalius; Tycho Brahe; Girodano Bruno; Francis Bacon, Viscount St Alban; Galileo Galilei; Johannes Kepler; William Harvey; René Descartes; Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke; John Ray; Sir Isaac Newton; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; Leonhard Euler; Carolus Linnaeus; Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon; Jean Le Rond d'Alembert; Henry Cavendish…”
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The Albert Einstein Collection : Essays in Humanism, The Theory of Relativity, and The World As I See It.
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Isaac Newton (1942); 22. Johannes Kepler (1949); 23. Marie Curie in Memoriam (1935); 24. …”
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Remarkable Physicists : From Galileo to Yukawa.
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Prologue; 1 From Galileo to Daniel Bernoulli; Galileo Galilei (1564-1642); Johannes Kepler (1571-1630); Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695); Isaac Newton (1642-1726); Daniel Bernoulli (1700-1782); 2 From Franklin to Laplace; Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790); Roger Joseph Boscovich (1711-1787); Henry Cavendish (1731-1810); Charles Augustin Coulomb (1736-1806); Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749-1827); 3 From Rumford to Oersted; Sir Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) (1753-1814); Jean-Baptiste Fourier (1768-1830); Thomas Young (1773-1829).…”
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Picturing the Scientific Revolution.
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…The Dispute over the World Systems: Visualizations in the Copernican Debate of the 17th Century; 3.1 Johannes Kepler and John Wilkins: variations of Brahe's "Quid si sic?"…”
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Essays in Metaphysics : Identity and Difference.
Published 2016Table of Contents: “…Isaac Newton (1942); 22. Johannes Kepler (1949); 23. Marie Curie in Memoriam (1935); 24. …”
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Quelle est cette science que je pratique? : repères en histoire de la physique et épistémologie
Published 2017Table of Contents: “…; Table des matiÃr̈es; Introduction -- Â" Lever le nez du guidon Â"; Chapitre 1 -- La naissance de la science moderne : de la mécanique dâ#x80;#x99;Aristote au principe dâ#x80;#x99;inertie de Galilée; Aristote; La théorie de lâ#x80;#x99;impetus; Galilée et le principe dâ#x80;#x99;inertie; Les effets de lâ#x80;#x99;héliocentrisme copernicien; Giordano Bruno; Tycho Brahé; Johannes Kepler; Et enfin Galileo Galilei; Chapitre 2 -- Galilée et Kepler : deux géants qui ne pouvaient pas se comprendre.…”
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The Origins of the Universe for Dummies.
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…Chapter 2: Looking Up at the Stars: Early BeliefsMaking a Home for the Gods: Early Notions; Taking a Scientific Approach: Early Views; Moving the Sun to the Centre: The Copernican Revolution; Chapter 3: The Apple Drops: Newton, Gravity, and the Rotation of the Planets; Tycho Brahe, a Rising Star; Assisting -- and Surpassing -- Brahe: Johannes Kepler; The Universe Reveals Itself: Galileo; Watching Apples Fall: Isaac Newton; Part II: Modern Cosmology: Going Off with a Bang; Chapter 4: Bending the Universe: Magnets and Gravity; Confirming Newton's Laws.…”
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