Heavenly intrigue

Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the murder behind one of history's greatest scientific discoveries

Chronicles the stormy collaboration between astronomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler at the turn of the seventeenth century, discussing how their discoveries would mark the transition from medieval to modern science and why Kepler is believed to have killed Brahe in order to take credit for Brahe's discoveries.

Doubleday
2004
9780385508445
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435566