Reading the Mind of God

Kepler'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.

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• Religião e ciência
• Astronomia, espaço e tempo
• História da Ciência
• Matemática

History of Science;History of Astronomy;History of Optics and the Telescope;History of Mathematics;Science and Religion;The Copernican Revolution;Johannes Kepler's science and religion