The Astronomer and the Witch
Johannes Kepler's Fight for his Mother
(Sprache: Englisch)
Shortlisted for the 2017 Dingle Prize
The extraordinary tale of Johannes Kepler, one of the most admired astronomers of all time, and the six long years spent defending his mother from her neighbours' accusations of witchcraft. A story which takes us to the heart of Kepler's changing world.
The extraordinary tale of Johannes Kepler, one of the most admired astronomers of all time, and the six long years spent defending his mother from her neighbours' accusations of witchcraft. A story which takes us to the heart of Kepler's changing world.
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Shortlisted for the 2017 Dingle Prize
The extraordinary tale of Johannes Kepler, one of the most admired astronomers of all time, and the six long years spent defending his mother from her neighbours' accusations of witchcraft. A story which takes us to the heart of Kepler's changing world.
The extraordinary tale of Johannes Kepler, one of the most admired astronomers of all time, and the six long years spent defending his mother from her neighbours' accusations of witchcraft. A story which takes us to the heart of Kepler's changing world.
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Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of Copernicus´ s sun-centred universe, he famously discovered that planets move in ellipses, and defined the three laws of planetary motion. Perhaps less well known is that in 1615, when Kepler was at the height of his career, his widowed mother Katharina was accused of witchcraft. The proceedings led to a criminal trial that lasted six years, with Kepler conducting his mother's defence. In The Astronomer and the Witch, Ulinka Rublack pieces together the tale of this extraordinary episode in Kepler's life, one which takes us to the heart of his changing world. First and foremost an intense family drama, the story brings to life the world of a small Lutheran community in the centre of Europe at a time of deep religious and political turmoil - a century after the Reformation, and on the threshold of the Thirty Years' War.
Kepler's defence of his mother also offers us a fascinating glimpse into the great astronomer's world view, on the cusp between Reformation and scientific revolution. While advancing rational explanations for the phenomena which his mother's accusers attributed to witchcraft, Kepler nevertheless did not call into question the existence of magic and witches. On the contrary, he clearly believed in them. And, as the story unfolds, it appears that there were moments when even Katharina's children struggled to understand what their mother had done...
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Astronomer and the Witch “
- Timeline of Johannes Kepler's LIfe
- 1: 2: Introduction
- 2: A Lutheran Court
- 3: The Year of the Witches
- 4: Kepler's Strategies
- 5: A Family Responds
- 6: Movements of the Soul
- 7: The Trial Continues
- 8: Other Witches
- 9: Katherina's Imprisonment
- 10: Kepler's Return
- 11: The Defence
- 12: The Trial Ends
- 13: Kepler's Dream
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Further Reading
- Index
Autoren-Porträt von Ulinka Rublack
Ulinka Rublack is Professor at the University of Cambridge and has published widely on early modern European history as well as approaches to history. She has edited, most recently, the Oxford Concise Companion to History (2011), and her Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations is forthcoming. Her monographs include Reformation Europe (2005), The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany (1999), and Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe (2010), which won the Roland H. Bainton Prize.Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ulinka Rublack
- 2015, 400 Seiten, Maße: 16,4 x 24,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198736770
- ISBN-13: 9780198736776
- Erscheinungsdatum: 13.10.2015
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
A breath-taking account of a brave family who boldly fought for justice. Early Science and Medicine
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