Tycho and Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership That Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens
- ISBN-10
- 0802713904
- ISBN-13
- 9780802713902
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 402
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002-03-01
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing USA
- Author
- Kitty Ferguson
Description
Describes the scientific partnership between sixteenth-century astronomer Tycho Brahe and his colleague and student, mathematician Johannes Kepler, and the influence of Tycho's naked-eye observations of planetary movements on Kepler's Three Laws of Planetary Motion, the cornerstone of cosmology.
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- 2013-01-31
- 384 pages
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- 2004-03-01
- 352 pages
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- 2003
- 399 pages
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