The comet -- Sidebar: Copernicus's Model of Retrograde Motion -- The secret of the universe -- Sidebar: Platonic solids -- The new astronomy -- Sidebar: Uraniborg Observatory -- Sidebar: Kepler's first two laws -- The harmony of the world -- Sidebar: Kepler's third law -- Witch trial -- The dream -- Epilogue
Summary
A biography of the German astronomer who discovered three laws of planetary motion
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-138) and index