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Johannes Kepler
and the New Astronomy
PORTRAITS
IN SCIENCE
Owen Gingerich
General Editor
Johannes Kepler
and the New Astronomy
James R. Voelkel
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Copyright © 1999 by James R. Voelkel
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Layout: Leonard Levitsky
Picture research: Lisa Kirchner
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Voelkel, James R. 0ames Robert)
Johannes Kepler and the New Astronomy / James R. Voelkel
p. cm. — (Oxford portraits in science)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary: A biography of the German astronomer who discovered three
laws of planetary motion.
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-511680-9 (hardcover); 978-0-19-515021-6 (paperback)
ISBN-10: 0-19-511680-1 (hardcover); 0-19-515021-X (paperback)
1. Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630 Juvenile literature. [1. Kepler, Johannes,
1571-1630. 2. Astronomers.] I. Title. II. Series.
QB36.K4V64 1999
520'.92—dc21
99-23844
[B]
CIP
987654
Printed in the United States of America
on acid-free paper
On the cover:
Portrait of Kepler by Hans von Aachen (1612). Scholars are not entire-
ly certain that this portrait depicts Kepler.
Inset:
Detail of the frontispiece of the
Rudolfine Tables
showing Kepler at work.
Frontispiece:
Copperplate engraving of Kepler (1620) by Jacob von Heyden, after a
portrait by an unknown artist.
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