Johannes Kepler: The Order of Things

by Wolfgang Osterhage

Book Overview

This book traces the development of Kepler's ideas along with his unsteady wanderings in a world dominated by religious turmoil. Johannes Kepler, like Galileo, was a supporter of the Copernican heliocentric world model. From an early stage, his principal objective was to discover "the world behind the world", i.e. to identify the underlying order and the secrets that make the world function as it does: the hidden world harmony. Kepler was...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030468607
• ISBN13: 9783030468606
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"