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affected, at least to some extent, by the prevailing religious thought. Kepler, Descartes, Leibniz, and Newton freely acknowledged this influence; it played...

theory of the magnetic influences of the sun, moon and planets influenced Kepler's preconception of gravity. See also: William Gilbert of Colchester, Physician...

Nova Kepleriana: Die Coss von Jost Bürgi in der Redaktion von Johannes Kepler. (1973) Verlag der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Munich. English...

which pleases best, embrace, Still we the fountain of their motion trace. Kepler asserts these wonders may be done By the magnetic vertue of the sun, Which...

reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer. Johannes Kepler, In Martyrs of Science, p. 197. I love to lose myself in other men's minds...

lands—John Napier... from Scotland, Jobst Bürgi... from Switzerland, and Johann Kepler... from Germany. Carl Benjamin Boyer, A History of Mathematics (1968, 1991)...

the hard truth to his dearest illusions.” On the character of Johannes Kepler, p. 67 It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable...

modern decimal point... Yet... the innovators... with the exception of Kepler and Briggs, either did not recognize this fact, or else had no faith that...

workings of the Copernican system as a whole. Kepler and Galileo were both influenced by this view, and with Kepler, it became an integral part of his system...

Emilio Segrè in Enrico Fermi: Physicist (1970), 149. Pythagoras, Ptolemy, Kepler, Copernicus, Aristotle, Galileo, Newton and Einstein ... These great men...

small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long...

to justify Plato's aesthetic bias in astronomy. Unfortunately, however, Kepler discovered that the planets move in ellipses, not in circles, with the sun...

Aeschylus, Goethe Favourite prose-writer … Diderot Favourite hero … Spartacus, Kepler Favourite heroine … Gretchen [Heroine of Goethe's Faust] Favourite flower...

anodyne is a dose of the supernatural. Even Kepler and Newton mingled their science with mythology: Kepler believed in witchcraft, and Newton wrote less...

for whom historical evidence is nothing. Edwyn R. Bevan, in Thomas Samuel Kepler, Contemporary Thinking about Paul: An Anthology, New York: Abingdon-Cokesbury...