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Author Rublack, Ulinka, author

Title The astronomer and the witch : Johannes Kepler's fight for his mother / Ulinka Rublack
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (xxxii, 359 pages)
Contents Cover ; The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for his Mother ; Copyright; Dedication; Table of Contents ; Timeline of Key Dates in Johannes Keplerś Life and Major Publications, 1571-1620; Graz; Prague; Linz; Note on Dates; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Maps; Prologue ; Introduction ; 1: Katharina's Life; 2: A Lutheran Court; 3: The Year of the Witches; 4: Kepler's Strategies; 5: A Family Responds; 6: Movements of the Soul; 7: The Trial Continues; 8: Other Witches; 9: Katharina's Imprisonment; 10: Kepler's Return; 11: The Defence; 12: The Trial Ends; 13: Kepler's Dream
Summary Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of Copernicuśs sun-centred universe, he famously discovered that planets move in ellipses, and defined the three laws of planetary motion. Perhaps less well known is that in 1615, when Kepler was at the height of his career, his widowed mother Katharina was accused of witchcraft. The proceedings led to a criminal trial that lasted six years, with Kepler conducting his mother's defence. In The Astronomer and the Witch, Ulinka Rublack pieces together the tale of this extraordinary episode in Kepler's life, one which takes us to the heart of his changing world. First and foremost an intense family drama, the story brings to life the world of a small Lutheran community in the centre of Europe at a time of deep religious and political turmoil - a century after the Reformation, and on the threshold of the Thirty Years' War. Kepler's defence of his mother also offers us a fascinating glimpse into the great astronomer's world view, on the cusp between Reformation and scientific revolution
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 5, 2015)
Subject Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630 -- Trials, litigation, etc
SUBJECT Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630 fast
Subject Trials (Witchcraft) -- Germany -- 17th century
Witchcraft -- Germany -- History -- 17th century
Astronomers -- Germany -- Biography
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT -- Parapsychology -- General.
Astronomers
Trials (Witchcraft)
Witchcraft
Astronomer.
Häxprocesser.
Rättegångar.
Historia.
Germany
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
History
Trials, litigation, etc.
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191056444
0191056448