Tycho and Kepler (56 page)

Baumgardt, Carola.
Johannes Kepler: Life and Letters
. New York: Philosophical Library, 1951.

Brahe, Tycho.
Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica
. Translated into English as
Tycho Brahe’s Description of His Instruments and Scientific Work
by Hans Raeder, Elis Strömgren, and Bengt Strömgren. Copenhagen: I Kommission Hos Ejnar Munksgaard, 1946.

Caspar, Max.
Kepler
. Translated and edited by C. Doris Hellman. Original book, in German, was published in Germany in 1948; reissue, with references by Owen Gingerich and bibliographical citations by Gingerich and Alain Segonds, New York: Dover Publications, 1993. Page citations are to the reissued edition.

Caspar, Max, Walther von Dyck, Franz Hammer, and Volker Bialas, eds.
Johannes Kepler Gesammelte Werke
. 22 vols. Munich: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, 1937–.

Christianson, John Robert. “The Celestial Palace of Tycho Brahe.”
Scientific American
204 (February 1961): 118–28.

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Cloister and Observatory: Herrevad Abbey and Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg
. Ph.D. diss., University of Minnesota, 1964.

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On Tycho’s Island: Tycho Brahe and His Assistants,
1570–1601
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Doebel, Günter.
Johannes Kepler: Er veränderte das Weltbild
. Graz: Verlag Styria, 1983.

Dreyer, John Louis Emil.
Tycho Brahe: A Picture of Scientific Life and Work in the Sixteenth Century
. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1890; 2nd edition. New York: Dover, 1963.

———, ed.
Tychonis Brahe Dani Opera Omnia
. 15 vols. Copenhagen:
Libraria Gyldendaliana, 1913–29.

Ferguson, Kitty.
Measuring the Universe: Our Historic Quest to Chart the Horizons of Space and Time
. New York: Walker & Company, 1999.

Frisch, Christian, ed.
Joannis Kepleri Astronomi Opera Omnia
. 8 vols. Frankfurt-Erlangen, 1858–1871. This is the source for the witchcraft trial documents, and for many details of Kepler’s life.

Gassendi, Pierre.
Tychonis Brahei Vita, Accessit Nicolai Copernici, Georgii Puerbachii et Joannis Regiomontani Vita
. Paris, 1654. Swedish translation,
Tycho Brahe: Mannen och Verket
. Efter Gassendi översatt med kommentar av Wilhelm Norlind. Lund: C. W. K. Gleerup, 1951. The original is extremely rare. Page citations are to the 1951 edition, by way of Thoren’s
Lord of Uraniborg
.

Gerlach, Walter, and Martha
List.
Johannes Kepler, Dokumente zu Lebenszeit und Lebenswerk
. Munich: Ehrenwirth Verlag, 1971.

Gingerich, Owen.
The Great Copernicus Chase, and Other Adventures in Astronomical History
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

———. “Johannes Kepler.” In
Dictionary of Scientific Biography
, ed. Charles Coulston Gillispie, 7: 289–312. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1973.

Gingerich, Owen, and James R. Voelkel. “Tycho Brahe’s Copernican Campaign.”
Journal for the History of Astronomy
29 (February 1998).

Hausenblasová, Jaroslava, and Michal Sronek.
Das Rudolfinische Prag
. Prague: Gallery, 1997.

Holton, Gerald.
Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein
. Rev. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1988.

Jardine, Nicholas.
The Birth of History and Philosophy of Science: Kepler’s “A Defense of Tycho against Ursus” with Essays on its Provenance and Significance
. Includes a translation of “A Defense of Tycho against Ursus.” Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Kepler, Johannes.
Astronomia Nova
. Translated into English as
Johannes Kepler: New Astronomy
by William H. Donahue. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1992.

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Harmonice Mundi
. Translated into English as
Five Books of the Harmony of the World
by Eric J. Aiton, A. M. Duncan, and J. V. Field. Philadelphia: 1993.

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Johannes Kepler Selbstzeugnisse
. Edited by Franz Hammer; translated into German by Esther Hammer, with commentary by F. Seck. Stuttgart–Bad Cannstatt: TK 1971. Contains Kepler’s “Selbstcharakteristik.”

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Mysterium Cosmographicum
.1596.
Mysterium
has been translated into English as
Secret of the Universe
by A. M. Duncan. New York: 1981. Page citations are to 1596 edition, via Caspar, et al, 1937–.

———. “Rudolphine Tables: Introduction.” Translated by Owen Gingerich and William Walderman.
Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society
13 (1972): 60–73.

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Somnium
. Translated
into English as
Kepler’s Somnium
by Edward Rosen. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967.

Koestler, Arthur.
The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man’s Changing Vision of the Universe
. New York: Penguin/Arkana, 1959. The section about Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, “The Watershed,” has been printed separately under that title.

Kuhn, Thomas.
The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy
in the Development of Western Thought
. 1957. Reprint, New York: MJF Books, 1985.

Levenson, Thomas.
Measure for Measure: A Musical History of Science
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.

Methuen, Charlotte.
Kepler’s Tübingen
, Brookfield VT: Ashgate Press, 1968.

Morris, Roderick Conway. “Palladio: Reinventing the Classical Past.”
International Herald Tribune
(on-line), June 23, 2001.

Nova Kepleriana
. This is a series of Kepler documents and research about Kepler printed by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

Pippard, Brian.
Science: A Physicist’s View
. Unpublished paper.

Porter, Neil A. “Kepler.” In
Physicists in Conflict
. Bristol, England and Philadelphia: Institute of Physics Publishing, 1998.

Rosen, Edward.
Three Imperial Mathematicians: Kepler Trapped
between Tycho Brahe and Ursus
. New York: Abaris Books, 1986.

Schmidt, Justus.
Johann Kepler, sein Leben in Bildern und eigenen Berichten
. Linz: Rudolf Trauner Verlag, 1970. Contains extensive portions of Kepler’s “Selbstcharakteristik” (1597) and other personal writings, under the title “Heimat.” Material that I have used from this source has been translated into English with the help of
Karoline Krenn of the Universität Salzburg.

Stephenson, Bruce.
Kepler’s Physical Astronomy
. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1987.

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The Music of the Heavens: Kepler’s Harmonic Astronomy
. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994.

Thoren, Victor.
The Lord of Uraniborg: A Biography of Tycho Brahe
. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

———. “New Light on Tycho’s
Instruments.”
Journal for the History of Astronomy
4 (1973): 25–45.

Voelkel, James R.
Johannes Kepler and the New Astronomy
. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Wilson, Curtis. “How Did Kepler Discover His First Two Laws?”
Scientific American
226 (March 1972): 92–106.