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Johannes Kepler, born in 1571 in south Germany, was one of the world's greatest mathematicians and astronomers. The author of this book uses this history as a background to his novel, writing a work of historical fiction that is rooted in poverty, squalor and the tyrannical power of emperors.

Kepler, Johannes, --- Kepler, Jean --- Kepler, Johann --- Keppler, Giovanni

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The cosmology of Johannes Kepler remains a mystery. On the one hand, Kepler’s speculations on spiritual faculties are seen as the remnants of Renaissance philosophy. On the other, his comparison of the cosmos to a clock summons the mechanical metaphor that shaped modern science. This book explores the inseparable connections between Kepler’s vitalistic views and his more enduring accomplishments in astronomy. The key argument is that Kepler’s ‘celestial biology’ served as a bridge between his revolutionary astronomy and other ‘less scientific’ interests, particularly astrology. Kepler's Cosmological Synthesis sheds new light on one of the foundational figures of the Scientific Revolution. By uncovering a new form of coherence in Kepler’s world picture, it traces the unlikely intersections of mechanism and vitalism that transformed the fabric of the heavens.

Cosmology --- Astronomy --- SCIENCE / Cosmology --- History. --- Kepler, Johannes, --- Kepler, Jean --- Kepler, Johann --- Keppler, Giovanni --- Philosophy.

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A committed Lutheran excommunicated from his own church, a friend to Catholics and Calvinists alike, a layman who called himself a "priest of God," a Copernican in a world where Ptolemy still reigned, a man who argued at the same time for the superiority of one truth and the need for many truths to coexist--German astronomer Johannes Kepler was, to say the least, a complicated figure. With The Pursuit of Harmony, Aviva Rothman offers a new view of him and his achievements, one that presents them as a story of Kepler's attempts to bring different, even opposing ideas and circumstances into harmony. Harmony, Rothman shows, was both the intellectual bedrock for and the primary goal of Kepler's disparate endeavors. But it was also an elusive goal amid the deteriorating conditions of his world, as the political order crumbled and religious war raged. In the face of that devastation, Kepler's hopes for his theories changed : whereas he had originally looked for a unifying approach to truth, he began instead to emphasize harmony as the peaceful coexistence of different views, one that could be fueled by the fundamentally nonpartisan discipline of mathematics.

Cosmology. --- Harmony (Aesthetics). --- Religion and science. --- Kepler, Johannes, --- Harmony (Aesthetics) --- Religion and science --- Cosmology --- Aesthetics --- Astronomy --- Deism --- Metaphysics --- Christianity and science --- Geology --- Geology and religion --- Science --- Science and religion --- Religious aspects --- Kepler, Jean --- Kepler, Johann --- Keppler, Giovanni

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Astronomers --- Religion and science --- Science --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Christianity and science --- Geology --- Geology and religion --- Science and religion --- Biography --- History --- Religious aspects --- Kepler, Johannes --- Kepler, Jean --- Kepler, Johann --- Keppler, Giovanni --- Tübingen (Germany) --- Intellectual life --- Natural sciences --- Kepler, Johannes, --- Tübingen (Germany)