Heavenly intrigue : Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the murder behind one of history's greatest scientific discoveries / Joshua Gilder and Anne-Lee Gilder.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [286]-296) and index.
Contents
The funeral -- A transcript of anguish -- Expulsion -- Mapping heaven -- The alchemist -- The exploding star -- An island of his own -- The tychonic system of the world -- Exile -- The secret of the universe -- Marriage -- The Ursus affair -- Imperial mathematician -- Intolerance -- Confrontation in Prague -- Bad faith -- Tycho and Rudolf -- The Mästlin affair -- The pot boils -- The death of Tycho Brahe -- In the crypt -- Revealing symptoms -- Thirteen hours -- The elixir -- The motive and the means -- Theft -- The three laws.
