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Author Voelkel, James R. (James Robert), 1962-

Title Johannes Kepler and the new astronomy / James R. Voelkel
Published New York : Oxford University Press, ©1999

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Description 1 online resource (141 pages) : illustrations
Series Oxford portraits in science
Oxford portraits in science.
Contents 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
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Subject Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630 -- Juvenile literature
SUBJECT Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630
Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630 fast
Kepler, Johannes 1571-1631 gnd
Kepler, Johannes, (1571-1630) -- Biographies. ram
Kepler, Johannes. swd
Subject Astronomers -- Germany -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Astronomers
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Biography & Autobiography -- Science & Technology.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Science & Nature -- Astronomy.
Astronomers
Biografie
Sterrenkunde.
Astronomes -- Allemagne -- Biographies.
Germany
Genre/Form Biographies
Juvenile works
Form Electronic book
LC no. 99023844
ISBN 1423774051
9781423774051