Heavenly Intrigue : Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder Behind One of History's Greatest Scientific Discoveries (Paperback)

from ExVivre

Heavenly Intrigue is to history what the nightly news on your local Fox affiliate is to journalism. The authors take an important and complex collaboration between two astronomers and sensationalize it. They portray Johannes Kepler as devious madman bent on obtaining Tycho Brahe's observational d...

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When I very first spotted Heavenly Intrigue on my library shelves, I resisted picking it up because of the blatant sensationalism of the subtitle but I just couldn't pass up the chance to get a second perspective on the same story. As expected, this book presented a much less detailed overview of...

from DoingDewey

When I very first spotted Heavenly Intrigue on my library shelves, I resisted picking it up because of the blatant sensationalism of the subtitle but I just couldn't pass up the chance to get a second perspective on the same story. As expected, this book presented a much less detailed overview of...

from ursula

This book sets forth the theory that Tycho Brahe was murdered, and that in fact, Johannes Kepler did it. Gilder traces Kepler's life and his interactions with Brahe. He makes a decent case for Kepler's motive and opportunity, as well as presenting evidence that Brahe's death was indeed murder rat...