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INTRODUCTION TO THE DOVER EDITION EDITOR'S FOREWORD PREFACE INTRODUCTION 1. Philosophic and scientific thought in the Renaissance 2. Revival of astronomical research; Copernicus 3. Religious conflict in the sixteenth century I. CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH 1571-1594 1. Birth and ancestry 2. Weil der Stadt 3. Kepler's family 4. First schooling 5. The seminary 6. The Stift in Tubingen 7. Studies and teachers at the university 8. Summons to Graz II. DISTRICT MATHEMATICS AND TEACHER IN GRAZ 1594-1600 1. Church politics in Graz 2. The Stiftsschule 3. The district mathematician's first calendars 4. Mysterium Cosmographicum 5. Marriage 6. The beginning of the Counter Reformation 7. "Further scholarly work; studies connected with the notion of "world harmony" 8. Kepler's oppressing situation and his visit to Tycho Brahe 9. Plans and work after Kepler's return 10. Sharpened Counter Reformation measures and exile from Graz III. IMPERIAL MATHEMATICIAN IN PRAGUE 1600-1612 1. The first months 2. Tycho Brahe's death and Kepler's appointment as imperial mathematician 3. Astronomia Nova; and the second and first planet laws 4. Astronomia Parts Optica 5. The religious situation in Prague 6. Emperor Rudolph II and Kepler 7. The New Star of 1604 8. Financial worries 9. Kepler's patrons and friends 10. Home life 11. Tabulae Rudolphinae; Ephemerides; Antwort auf Roslini Discurs; Tertius Interveniens 12. Political disorders; Kepler on the watch for a new place to work 13. Galileo's first discoveries with the telescope 14. Dissertatio cum Nuncio Sidereo 15. Dioptrice 16. "The unfortunate year, 1611" 17. Rejected by the Wurttemberg theologians; successful negotiations with Linz; death of Frau Kepler; departure from Prague IV. DISTRICT MATHEMATICIAN IN LINZ 1612-1626 1. Kepler in a new intellectual situation and official position 2. Exclusion from communion 3. Second marriage and household 4. The year of Christ's birth; the Gregorian calendar 5. Stereometria Doliorum and other scholarly work 6. Kepler's mother's witch trial 7. Last unavailing attempt in Tubingen to obtain admission to communion 8. Harmonice Mundi; and the third planet law 9. Controversy with Robert Fludd 10. Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae 11. Calendars and comets 12. Wartime in Linz; the Counter Reformation 13. Tabulae Rudolphinae 14. Siege of Linz and Kepler's departure V. LAST YEARS IN ULM AND SAGAN AND DEATH IN REGENSBURG 1626-1630 1. Ulm and the Tabulae Rudolphinae 2. "In search of a new dwelling place: Landgrave Philip of Hesse, Emperor Ferdinand" 3. Disagreement with the Jesuits 4. Kepler and Wallenstein 5. Sagan 6. Somnium 7. Jakob Bartsch 8. Regensburg and Kepler's death 9. The fate of Kepler's family and manuscripts REVIEW AND EVALUATION 1. Kepler's physical constitution and his character 2. Kepler's view of the world and his doctrine of knowledge 3. Kepler's cosmography THE PORTRAITS BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CITATIONS INDEX OF NAMES INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND PLACES