Kepler’s Witch

[pmrid]

https://www.booktopia.com.au/kepler-s-witch-james-a-connor/ebook/9780061737428.html

[Sunfish]

Looks like a great book. Thanks. I will have to get that one.

I enjoyed the Glass Universe about the Harvard searches for variable stars and the squabbles about the size of the universe at that point.

[pmrid]

Yes. Dava Sobel also wrote one about Copernicus which I have yet to read.

Peter

[Sunfish]

Ah yes. I will have to put that on the list. Her book called Gallileo’s Daughter was also good as father and daughter corresponded all their lives so it gives a lot of background to his work , his thoughts and trials.

[anthony.tony]

This is a brilliant series 6 cd’s..there is an episode on Kepler . And his persecution. A re-enactment of his life .his mother being taken away. Tony.

[pmrid]

Yes. Reading that at the moment.
The Kepler and Copernicus books are the product of meticulous research and do the author credit. They focus mainly on the “life and times” of the subjects rather than their discoveries, theories and great achievements in science. While I would like to have more of those elements and fewer of squabbles among churches and churchmen, I still credit the author for insights into their lives and daily tribulations.