Definitive biography by foremost scholar offers fascinating erudite picture of great mathematician's scientific accomplishments: formulation of laws of planetary motion, work with optics and calculus, much more. Also detailed chronicle of Kepler's public and personal life: childhood and youth, education, mother's trial as a witch, fear of religious persecution, more.

Table of Contents for Kepler

INTRODUCTION TO THE DOVER EDITION
EDITOR'S FOREWORD
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
1. Philosophic and scientific thought in the Renaissance
2. Revival of astronomical research; Copernicus
3. Religious conflict in the sixteenth century
I. CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH 1571-1594
1. Birth and ancestry
2. Weil der Stadt
3. Kepler's family
4. First schooling
5. The seminary
6. The Stift in Tübingen
7. Studies and teachers at the university
8. Summons to Graz
II. DISTRICT MATHEMATICS AND TEACHER IN GRAZ 1594-1600
1. Church politics in Graz
2. The Stiftsschule
3. The district mathematician's first calendars
4. Mysterium Cosmographicum
5. Marriage
6. The beginning of the Counter Reformation
7. "Further scholarly work; studies connected with the notion of "world harmony"
8. Kepler's oppressing situation and his visit to Tycho Brahe
9. Plans and work after Kepler's return
10. Sharpened Counter Reformation measures and exile from Graz
III. IMPERIAL MATHEMATICIAN IN PRAGUE 1600-1612
1. The first months
2. Tycho Brahe's death and Kepler's appointment as imperial mathematician
3. Astronomia Nova; and the second and first planet laws
4. Astronomia Parts Optica
5. The religious situation in Prague
6. Emperor Rudolph II and Kepler
7. The New Star of 1604
8. Financial worries
9. Kepler's patrons and friends
10. Home life
11. Tabulae Rudolphinae; Ephemerides; Antwort auf Röslini Discurs; Tertius Interveniens
12. Political disorders; Kepler on the watch for a new place to work
13. Galileo's first discoveries with the telescope
14. Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo
15. Dioptrice
16. "The unfortunate year, 1611"
17. Rejected by the Württemberg theologians; successful negotiations with Linz; death of Frau Kepler; departure from Prague
IV. DISTRICT MATHEMATICIAN IN LINZ 1612-1626
1. Kepler in a new intellectual situation and official position
2. Exclusion from communion
3. Second marriage and household
4. The year of Christ's birth; the Gregorian calendar
5. Stereometria Doliorum and other scholarly work
6. Kepler's mother's witch trial
7. Last unavailing attempt in Tübingen to obtain admission to communion
8. Harmonice Mundi; and the third planet law
9. Controversy with Robert Fludd
10. Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae
11. Calendars and comets
12. Wartime in Linz; the Counter Reformation
13. Tabulae Rudolp
14. Siege of Linz and Kepler's departure
V. LAST YEARS IN ULM AND SAGAN AND DEATH IN REGENSBURG 1626-1630
1. Ulm and the Tabulae Rudolphinae
2. "In search of a new dwelling place: Landgrave Philip of Hesse, Emperor Ferdinand"
3. Disagreement with the Jesuits
4. Kepler and Wallenstein
5. Sagan
6. Somnium
7. Jakob Bartsch
8. Regensburg and Kepler's death
9. The fate of Kepler's family and manuscripts
REVIEW AND EVALUATION
1. Kepler's physical constitution and his character
2. Kepler's view of the world and his doctrine of knowledge
3. Kepler's cosmography
THE PORTRAITS
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CITATIONS
INDEX OF NAMES
INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND PLACES

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