Tycho and Kepler (57 page)

and Scripture

Sun-centered

support for

Copernican revolution

Copernican tables

see also
Prutenic Tables

Copernicus

TB heir to

Earth orbit

mathematical theories of

planetary distances

Cosmology

Aristotelian

Cosmos

Counter–Reformation

Craig, John

Cross staff/radius

Crystallography

Cube

Cylinder

Dançey, Charles de

Dante

Deferent(s)

Denmark

TB leaving

TB position in

courtship and marriage customs

government

law codes

religious conflict

wars

Descartes, René

Distance, inverse of

Distance rule

Diurnal parallax

Dybvad, Jørgen

Earth

axis of rotation

behaves like planet

center

controversy regarding movement of

decaying nature of

influence of planetary movements on

moving

orbit

“planet-moving force,”

rotation of

stability of

unmoving

Eccentric/eccentricity

Eccentric orbit(s)

center of

Mars

see also
Planetary eccentricities

Eclipse of Moon

Eclipses

lunar

solar

Ecliptic

Einhorn, Lutherus

Ellipse

Elliptical orbit

Mars

Ephemerides

Ephemeris

Epicycle

Equant

Euclid

Eye(s), function of

Fabricius, David

Ferdinand II, Archduke

Fiefs

offered to TB

transfer of

Flemløse, Peter Jacobsen

Frankfurt Book Fair

Frederick, King (Frederick II)

TB finding experts for

TB relations with

TB’s report on comet to

death of

marriage

offered fiefs to TB

and religious conflict

support for TB’s work

support for scientific research

Free will

Friis, Christian

Frobenius, Georg Ludwig

Galileo

clash with pope

discovery of planets

telescope

Gassendi, Pierre

Gemperle, Tobias

Geometry

and geometric harmony

and musical harmony

Globe

Gnesio-Lutherans

God

creation of universe

designing universe

geometric logic of

logic and harmony of creation

reasoning of

Gravity

Graz, Styria

JK in

JK required to leave

Kepler family in

Protestants expelled from

religious situation in

threat to JK in

Great Conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn

Hagecius, Thaddeus

Hainzel, Paul

Half-sextant

Hapsburg family

Harmonic law

Harmonic ratios

Harmonic theory

Harmony

Heavenly movement

Ptolemy’s model of

Heliocentric longitudes

Hemmingsen, Niels

Herrevad Abbey

Hexagon

Hipparchus

Hoffmann, Johann Friedrich

Holy Roman Emperor

Holy Roman Empire

Horizon

Horoscopes

by TB

by JK

Hven

Brahe children could not inherit

TB left

center point

changes

Christian at

instruments at

new charter for

map of

peasants

visitors to

Inertia

Instruments

Instruments (TB)

at Benatky

Copenhagen observatory

JK responsibility for

metal

more precise and powerful

moving

moving to Benatky

moving to Copenhagen

moving to Prague

payment for

at Stjerneborg

at Uraniborg

Integral calculus

Inverse square law

Inverse square law of light

Jesensky, Jan

Jørgensdatter, Kirsten

and death of TB

status

Jupiter

conjunction with Saturn

moons of

Kepler, Barbara Müller

bad health and depression

death of

inheritance

left Graz

married JK

Kepler, Christoph

Kepler, Heinrich (brother of JK)

Kepler, Heinrich (father of JK)

Kepler, Heinrich (son of JK)

Kepler, Johannes

agreement with Tengnagel

allowed to return to Graz

astronomy

book by, sent to TB

books

and TB

on TB

career

children

children: deaths

contractual arrangement with TB

death of

and death of TB

district mathematician

early life

education

financial
situation

and Galileo

imperial mathematician

letter praising Ursus

library

marriage arrangements

marriage to B. Müller

marriage to S. Reuttinger

and mother’s witchcraft trial

personal characteristics

portrait

problem of Mars

provincial mathematician

questions asked by

required to leave Graz

responsibility for completion of unfinished
work of TB

status

teaching in Graz

threat to, in Graz

worldview

Kepler, Katharina

accused of witchcraft

Kepler, Margarethe (later Binder)

Kepler, Sebald

Kepler, Susanna Reuttinger

Kepler family

Kepler’s Star

Knieper, Hans

Knutstorp

Knutstorps Borg (castle)

Lange, Erik

Laubenwolf, George

Liddell, Duncan

Light

inverse square
law of

Light rays

Linz

religious conflict in

Logarithms

Longomontanus

and JK contract

left TB

moving instruments

and problem of Mars

work on lunar theory

work on Mars observations

Lunar eclipses

Lunar theory (TB)

Luther, Martin

Lutheranism/Lutherans

action against,

division in

tension with Catholics

Magdeburg

Magnetic
hypothesis

Magnetism

Mars

conjunction with Moon

distance from Earth

oppositions

orbit

orbit: JK work on

parallax

see also
Mars observations; “Problem of Mars”

Mars observations

JK and

JK surrendered to Tengnagel

JK use of/work on

and mathematical theory

Mästlin, Michael

appeals to

JK visited

and JK’s book

optics problem

Mathematical harmonies

Mathematics

of Copernicus

different from physics

JK

Mathematical/geometric logic

observations and

Matthias (emperor)

Melanchthon, Philipp

Mercury

orbit

Milky Way

Moon

conjunction with Mars

motion of

orbit

parallax shift

and tides

Müller, Regina

death of

Mural quadrant

Music

Musical
intervals

Musical ratios

Napier, John

Nature

harmonic ratios in

pattern, logic, harmony in

Newton, Sir Isaac

Nicholas of Cusa, Cardinal

North celestial pole

North Pole

Nova

TB book about

parallax shift

positions of

Observation, and theory

Observations (TB)

astronomical tables based on

comet

in Copernican revolution

from
Hven

JK access to

JK took charge of

JK use of/work on

records of

see also
Mars observations

Odometer

Opposition

Mars

Optics

Osiander, Andreas

Oval

Ovid

Oxe, Peder

Oxe family

Palladio, Andrea

Parallax shift

comet

Mars

Parsberg, Manderup

Peace of Augsburg

Pedersen, Rasmus

Pentagon

Perfect solids

Perihelion

Philippists

Physical reasons/explanations

for eccentricities

need for

search for

Physics

mathematics different from

Pinhole images

Plague

Planck, Johannes

Planet-moving force

Earth

Sun

Planetary chord

Planetary eccentricities

Planetary models

Planetary motion/movement

cause of

effects on Earth

explanations for

first law of

in harmonic theory

laws of

mathematical/geometrical

models demonstrating

physical explanation of

prediction of

second law of

third law of

Planetary orbits

distances between

using Platonic solids

Planetary periods

Planetary positions

Planetary theory

Planets

TB work on

discovery of new

distances from Sun

retrograde
movement

speeds

spheres

variation in speed of

Plato

Platonic/Pythagorean solids

related to planetary chord

Pluto

Pole Star

Polygons

Polyhedral theory

TB on

failures of

Polyhedrons

Prague

battles in

TB in

JK in

Pratensis, Johannes

death of

Precision, TB standard of

“Problem of Mars,”

Protestantism/Protestants

action against

conflict with Catholics

division in

expelled from Graz

revolution in Bohemia

TB adjustments to

Prutenic Tables

Ptolemaic astronomy

breakaway from

devices of

Ptolemaic model/system

compromise with Copernican

difference from Copernican

planetary movement in

Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus)

TB heir to

Earth–centered model

eccentric planetary orbits

equant

scheme of cosmos

variation in speed of planets

“Puffy-cheeked” orbit

Pythagoreans

Quadrans maximus
(great quadrant)

Quadrans mediocris orichalcicus azimuthalis

Quadrant(s)

azimuth

brass and gold

copy of

great

procedure for using

revolving wood

steel

see also
Mural quadrant

Ramus, Petrus

Rantzau, Heinrich

Reformation

Refraction

Regensburg

Reinbold, Ursula

Reinhold, Erasmus

Religion

TB

JK and

Religious conflict

in Graz

Retrograde movement

Rigsraad

Roskilde Cathedral

Rostock

Rothmann, Christoph

Rudolfine Tables

Rudolfine Tables

frontispiece

Rudolph, Emperor (Rudolph of Hapsburg)

abdication

astrology

death of

end of reign of

failure to keep word

interest in learning

and JK

JK astrological advice to

mental collapse

patronage for TB

support for TB

TB dedicated book to

Catholicism

St. Ibb’s Church

Sascerides, Gellius

Saturn

conjunctions with Jupiter

orbit

Scavenius, Nicolaus

Schultz, Bartholomew

Science

Scientific
method

Sextant

Solar eclipse

Solar refraction table

Solar system

dimensions of

model of

Sophie, Queen

South celestial pole

South Pole

Square

Star catalogs

Star positions

catalog of

Stars

cataloging

distance of

effect on weather

influence but do not determine human life

Steenwinkel, Hans von

Stellar parallax

lack
of

Stift

Stjerneborg (Star Castle)

archaeological site

bid for immortality

instruments

symbolism of

Styria

Sun

center

distance of planets from

force in, moving planets

motion of

orbit

orbiting Earth

parallax

partial eclipse

role of

rotation of

and seasons

source of all change and motion

“true,”

Sun-centered
astronomy

Supernovae

Symmetry

Telescope

JK defense of

Tengnagel, Franz

agreement with JK

completed TB’s work

Elisabeth Brahe’s marriage to

conflict with JK over TB works

and Mars observations

status

Theology

Thirty Years War

Transits

Transversal points

Triangle

Triangulation

Trigonometry

Trigons

Tübingen

Tuna (village)

Tychonic system

breaking code of

and Copernican system

correctness of

inventor of

justification of

JK and

plagiarized

planetary motion in

Sun orbiting in

validation of

Tychonides

Type I supernova

Ulrich of Mecklenburg, Duke