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Uniform motion

Universe

center of

design of

harmony of

physical reasons in

size of

structure
of

Sun-centered

University of Copenhagen

and Uraniborg

University of Leipzig

University of Tübingen

JK at

and JK book

Uraniborg

auxiliary observatory

castle/observatory

closing

communication system

contracts for service at

design of

destroyed/restored

floor plan

fountain

and future of TB’s children

garden

harmony in
design of

instrument shop

Kirsten mistress of household at

Logomontanus at

permanent endowment

Sophie Brahe at

and University of Copenhagen

visitors to

water system

Ursus

see
Bär, Nicolaus Reimers (Ursus)

Vedel, Anders Sørensen

Venice

Venus

orbit

phases of

transit

Vicarious Model/Vicarious Hypothesis

Vikings

Von Hohenburg,
Hans Georg Herwart

JK appeal to

Von Wackenfels, Wackher

Wallenstein, Albrecht

Wandsburg Castle

Weather

Moon and

prediction of

Weil der Stadt

Wensøsil, Jens Jenson

Wilhelm IV, Landgrave of Hesse

Wittenberg

Worldview

Ptolemaic

Württemberg

Württemberg, duke of

Zenith

Zodiac

About the Author

Kitty Ferguson is the author of
Measuring the Universe: The Historical Quest to Quantify Space
,
Prisons of Light: Black Holes
and the definitive
Stephen Hawking: His Life and Work
. She studied at the Juilliard School of Music in New York and was for many years a successful professional musician, conducting and performing oratorio, early music and chamber music. In 1986 she
moved to England where her husband was a Visiting Fellow and later Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University. During this and many subsequent periods of residence at Cambridge, Kitty Ferguson audited graduated lectures and seminars in the Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics and got to know some of the legendary figures in those fields, including Stephen Hawking. In 1987 she
retired from music to devote herself full time to writing about science.

Also by Kitty Ferguson

Black Holes in Spacetime

Stephen Hawking: Quest for a Theory of Everything

The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion, and the Search for God

Prisons of Light: Black Holes

Measuring the Universe

Pythagoras: His Lives and the Legacy of a Rational Universe

Stephen Hawking: His Life and Work/An Unfettered Mind

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TYCHO AND KEPLER
Version 1.0 Epub ISBN: 9781448167234

First published in the United States of America in 2002
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