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| Autore principale: | Ferguson, Kitty.
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| Titolo: | The nobleman and his housedog : Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, the strange partnership that revolutionised science / Kitty Ferguson. |
| Pubblicazione: | London : Review, 2002. |
| Descrizione fisica: | X, 372 p., [5] p. di tav. : ill. ; 22 cm |
| Contiene: | Indice: Acknowledgements and picture credits. Map: Tycho's Denmark. Map: Tycho's and Kepler's Europe. Prologue. 1. Legacies 2. Aristocrat by birth, astronomer by nature 3. Behaviour unbecoming a nobleman 4. Having the best of several universes 5. The isle of Hven 6. Worlds apart 7. A palace observatory 8. Adelberg, Maulbronn, Uraniborg 9. Contriving immortality 10. The undermining of human endeavour 11. Years of discontent 12. Geometry's universe 13. Divine right and earthly machination 14. Converging paths 15. Contact 16. Prague opens her arms 17. A disfunctional collaboration 18. Let me not seem to have lived in vain 19. The best of times 20. Astronomia nova 21. The wheel of fortune creaks around 22. An unlikely harmony 23. Measuring the shadows. Appendix 1: Angular distance. Appendix 2: The vocabulary of Tycho's and Kepler's astronomy. Index |
| ISBN: | 0747270228 |
| Discipline: | Astronomia--Persone. |
| Persone: | Brahe, Tycho, 1546-1601. Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Rinascimento. Secolo XVII. |
| Collocazione: | LS 12657 |
| Nota di esemplare: | Mostra nota di esemplare |
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