Books about Kepler
- Baumgardt, Carola, Johannes Kepler: Life and Letters.
New York: Philosophical Library, 1951.
UCSC S & E Lib QB36 K4 A3.
- Excerpts from Kepler's letters in English, with an Introduction
by Albert Einstein.
- Dijksterhuis, Eduard Jan.
The Mechanization of the World Picture.
Translated by C. Dikshoorn.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961.
UCSC S & E Lib Q125.D512.
- The best analysis of the premodern/modern shift. Thrilling.
- Ekeland, Ivar, Mathematics and the Unexpected.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
UCSC S & E Lib QA614.58.E34113 1988.
- Transl. by the author of the French original of 1984.
The first chapter is a very nice introduction to
solar system models: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Newton,
and Poincare.
- Herz-Fischler, Roger, A Mathematical History of Division in
Extreme and Mean Ratio.
Waterloo, ONT: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 1987.
- Definitive history of the golden section.
- Katz, Victor J.
A history of mathematics : an introduction.
New York : HarperCollins, c1993. UCSC S & E Lib QA21.K33 1993
- In addition to masterful treatment of the whole history of mathematics,
Katz provides a unique source for the actual math of
Kepler's music of the spheres.
- Koestler, Arthur,
The Watershed.
Garden City, NY : Anchor Books, 1960.
UCSC Lick Obs QB36 K4 K6
- From The Sleepwalkers of 1959.
Koestler believed that Kepler was the watershed
between ancient and modern, hence the title.
- Kozhamthadam, Job, The Discovery of Kepler's Laws:
The Interaction of Science, Philosophy, and Religion.
Notre Dame : Notre Dame Press, 1994.
UCSC S & E Lib QB355.3.K69 1994
- A new direction in Keplerian scholarship, in which the bifurcation
from premodern to modern mind (ie, the second and first laws)
resulted from a sort of chemical
reaction between these three paradigms.
- Livio, Mario,
The Golden Ratio: The Story of PHI, the World's
Most Astonishing Number.
New York: Broadway Books, 2002.
- Just part of this wonderful tale deals with Kepler's
contributions in pp. 145-158.
- Martens, Rhonda,
Kepler's Philosophy and the New Astronomy.
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2000.
UCSC S & E Lib QB355.3.M37 2000.
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- Moore, Patrick, and Garry Hunt,
Atlas of the solar system.
Chicago : Rand McNally, 1983.
UCSC S & E Lib QB501.2.M66 1983
- Excellent stories on all of the planets, all the numbers you want.
- Stephenson, Bruce,
The Music of the Heavens.
Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1994.
UCSC S & E Lib QB361.S74 1994
- Harmony of the spheres from antiquity to Book V of Kepler.
- Szpiro, George C.,
Kepler's Conjecture: How some of the greatest minds in history
helped solve one of the oldest math poblems in the world.
New York: John Wiley, 2003.
- This old problem is: how to pack cannonballs in a ship.
Kepler posed a solution in 1611.
- Voelkel, Jams R.,
The Composition of Kepler's Astronomia Nova.
Prineceton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001.
- Treats equally the Mysterium Cosmographicum.
- Contains a useful index of Kepler's correspondence.
Rev'd 13 apr 2003 by ralph abraham
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