Table of Contents

Preface1Introduction12Mysterium Cosmographicum83Astronomia nova214Epitome of Copernican Astronomy1385Kepler and the Development of Modern Science202Bibliography206Glossary209Index213Index to the Astronomia nova217

About the Author

Bruce Stephenson is a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago.

Reviews

"'To explore and explain the development of Kepler's planetary theory, and of the physical hypotheses integral to that theory, more faithfully than has yet been done'--is [Stephenson's] expressed aim in this book. He has achieved it in a way unlikely to be surpassed; a more lucid and thorough account is scarcely imaginable. A good deal that was previously murky is here made clear. For an understanding of Keplerian endeavor 'from the inside,' Stephenson's book is undoubtedly the best guide now available."--Curtis Wilson, Centaurus "A landmark contribution to Keplerian studies and one that must not be missed by any historian or astronomer who seeks an understanding of the genesis of Kepler's laws."--Owen Gingerich, Isis