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Title: Heavenly Intrigue: Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder Behind One of History's Greatest Scientific Discoveries by Joshua Gilder, Anne-Lee Gilder ISBN: 0-385-50844-1 Publisher: Doubleday Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Read
Comment: CSI should make this an episode. There are so many pieces of evidence that
the authors weave together to come to their pretty startling conclusion - that
one of the greatest astronomer of all time (Kepler) probably poisoned another
one of the greatest astronomers of all time (Brahe) to get a hold of his
planetary observations. The authors don't say they can prove Kepler did it, just
that all the evidence points in his direction. And they've found a lot of
evidence in letters no one has published before, at least in English. If I were on
the jury, I think I'd vote to convict.
Rating: 5
Summary: A real-life murder Mystery
Comment: This is an extraordinary book: a narrative history of science that doubles as a real-life murder mystery. First the authors open a window on a fascinating time, when astronomy, astrology and even alchemy were all considered different branches of the same science. The authors do a wonderful job bringing those times alive and writing about the sciences in a way that is totally accessible to even a liberal arts major like me. I especially enjoyed the sections on Tycho Brahe's alchemy, and the authors' deep research into his mercury drug, which convinced them that it was a by-product of Brahe's lab that was used to poison him. Then the authors use modern forensics and medical knowledge, along with a Law-and-Order type analysis of motive, means and opportunity to pin Kepler - his assistant at the time, and one of history's most famous astronomers -- as the most likely culprit. I found it all fascinating and entirely plausible.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great narrative history!
Comment: This is a great book that I can highly recommend to anyone who liked The Professor and the Madman, Galileo's Daughter and other narrative histories of science. Heavenly Intrigue is a lot like Galileo's Daughter, too, in the sense that the authors translate a lot of Kepler's letters here for the first time, in this case showing us a dark side to the great scientist never revealed before.
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Title: Kepler's Witch: An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother by James A. Connor ISBN: 0060522550 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 30 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus by Owen Gingerich ISBN: 0802714153 Publisher: Walker & Company Pub. Date: 01 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality by Brian Greene ISBN: 0375412883 Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: The Forgotten Genius by Stephen Inwood ISBN: 1931561567 Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing Pub. Date: 01 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $28.50 |
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Title: The Transits of Venus by William Sheehan, John Edward Westfall ISBN: 1591021758 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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