Search Results - "Johannes Kepler"

Johann Kepler, 1571-1630; a tercentenary commemoration of his life and work by History of Science Society

Troubadour of the stars; the romantic life of Johannes Kepler by Saile, Olaf, 1901-

The watershed : a biography of Johannes Kepler by Koestler, Arthur, 1905-1983

Kepler's witch : an astronomer's discovery of cosmic order amid religious war, political intrigue, and the heresy trial of his mother 1st ed. by Connor, James A.

Lost science : astonishing tales of forgotten genius by Ferguson, Kitty

Contents: “…Mary the Jewess, lost in her own legend (c.1st-3rd centuries CE) ; Maria Sibylla Merian, wondrous transformations (1647-1717) ; Alfred Russel Wallace, the other Darwin (1823-1913) ; Lise Meitner, escape to obscurity (1878-1968) -- Part III: Forgotten firsts. Johannes Kepler, near-fatal fiction (c. 1590-1634) ; Milutin Milanković, astronomy on ice (1864-present) ; Barry Stermam, the elusive quality of stillness (late 1950s-present).…”

Comets : a chronological history of observation, science, myth, and folklore by Yeomans, Donald K.

Contents: “…The ephemeral comets of Johannes Kepler ; The devil's advocate : Galileo Galilei ; Early seventeenth century views on comets -- 4. …”
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On the shoulders of giants : the great works of physics and astronomy

Contents: “…Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543): His life and work; On the revolution of heavenly spheres -- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642): His life and work; Dialogues concerning two sciences -- Johannes Kepler (1571-1630): His life and work; Harmony of the world, Book 5 -- Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727): His life and work; Principia -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955): His life and work; Selections from The principle of relativity.…”
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The illustrated on the shoulders of giants : the great works of physics and astonomy

The 100 : a ranking of the most influential persons in history Revised edition. by Hart, Michael H.

Contents: “…Ernest Rutherford -- John Calvin -- Gregor Mendel -- Max Planck -- Joseph Lister -- Nikolaus August Otto -- Francisco Pizarro -- Hernando Cortes -- Thomas Jefferson -- Queen Isabella I -- Joseph Stalin -- Julius Caesar -- William the Conqueror -- Sigmund Freud -- Edward Jenner -- William Conrad Rontgen -- Johann Sebastian Bach -- Lao Tzu -- Voltaire -- Johannes Kepler -- Enrico Fermi -- Leonhard Euler -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Niccolo Machiavelli -- Thomas Malthus -- John F. …”

From sight to light : the passage from ancient to modern optics Paperback edition. by Smith, A. Mark

Tycho & Kepler : the unlikely partnership that forever changed our understanding of the heavens by Ferguson, Kitty

Mechanics from Aristotle to Einstein by Crowe, Michael J.

Contents: “…From Galileo to Newton -- William Gilbert (1544-1603) -- Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) -- René Descartes (1596-1650) -- Descartes, Principles of Philosophy, pp. 54-66 -- Christiaan Huygens (1629-1695) -- Huygens and the law of centripetal acceleration -- Huygens and the theory of collisions -- Selection from Huygens, On Colliding Bodies -- Newton and mechanics -- Chronology of the life of Sir Isaac Newton -- Background : the period before Newton -- The prehistory of Newton's Principia -- Newton during the 1660s -- Application of the law of centripetal acceleration to the Moon -- The relationships among the inverse square law, Kepler's third law, and the law of centripetal acceleration -- Newton from 1670 to 1680, especially his correspondence with Robert Hooke -- Newton, Flamsteed, and the comet of 1680-1681 -- Newton from 1684-1687 -- Newton's Principia -- Isaac Newton, Principia -- Newton's preface to the reader.…”

The world of mathematics; a small library of the literature of mathematics from Aʻh-mosé the scribe to Albert Einstein

Contents: “…Newman -- Archimedes / Plutarch, Vitruvius, Tzetzes -- Greek mathematics / Ivor Thomas -- Declaration of the profit of arithmeticke / Robert Recorde -- Johann Kepler / Sir Olver Lodge -- Geometry / Rene Descartes -- Isaac Newton / E.N. …”