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Johannes Kepler, giant of faith and science

1977
A biography of the German astronomer who discovered three laws of planetary motion.

Heavenly intrigue

Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the murder behind one of history's greatest scientific discoveries
2004
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.

Kepler's witch

an astronomer's discovery of cosmic order amid religious war, political intrigue, and the heresy trial of his mother
2004
Chronicles the life of seventeenth-century German astronomer Johannes Kepler and examines his mother's witchcraft trial.

Johannes Kepler and the three laws of planetary motion

2014
Discusses the life and discoveries of astronomer Johannes Kepler.

Kepler's dream

2013
While her mother undergoes radical cancer treatment, eleven-year-old Ella stays with her father's mother in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she learns about grammar and family history, and helps investigate the theft of an extremely rare book from her grandmother's library.

Kepler

1993

Tycho & Kepler

the unlikely partnership that forever changed our understanding of the heavens
2002
Chronicles the lives of sixteenth-century Danish and German astronomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler and explains how Tycho's inaccurate findings actually helped Kepler develop the three Laws of Planetary Motion, on which modern cosmology is based.

Johannes Kepler

discovering the laws of celestial motion
2003
A biography of Johannes Kepler, the seventeenth-century German astronomer and mathematician who formulated the three laws of planetary motion.

Johannes Kepler and the new astronomy

1999
A biography of the German astronomer who discovered three laws of planetary motion.

Johannes Kepler

discovering the laws of planetary motion
2003
A biography of Johannes Kepler, the astronomer and mathematician who formulated the three laws of planetary motion.

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