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By Ulinka Rublack

ISBN-10: 0198736770

ISBN-13: 9780198736776

ISBN-10: 0198736789

ISBN-13: 9780198736783

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) used to be some of the most prominent astronomers who ever lived and a key determine within the medical revolution. A defender of Copernicus´s sun-centred universe, he famously came across that planets flow in ellipses, and outlined the 3 legislation of planetary movement. probably much less renowned is that during 1615, while Kepler was once on the top of his occupation, his widowed mom Katharina was once accused of witchcraft. The court cases ended in a legal trial
that lasted six years, with Kepler undertaking his mother's defence.

In The Astronomer and the Witch, Ulinka Rublack items jointly the story of this awesome episode in Kepler's existence, one that takes us to the guts of his altering international. initially an extreme relatives drama, the tale brings to lifestyles the area of a small Lutheran neighborhood within the centre of Europe at a time of deep non secular and political turmoil - a century after the Reformation, and at the threshold of the Thirty Years' War.

Kepler's defence of his mom additionally deals us a desirable glimpse into the good astronomer's international view, at the cusp among Reformation and medical revolution. whereas advancing rational causes for the phenomena which his mother's accusers attributed to witchcraft, Kepler however didn't name into query the lifestyles of magic and witches. to the contrary, he essentially believed in them. And, because the tale unfolds, it seems that there have been moments whilst even Katharina's
children questioned even if their mom fairly did don't have anything to hide...

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