Ulinka Rublack: Astronomer & the Witch

Cover: 9780198736776 | Astronomer & the Witch | Johannes Kepler's Fight for His Mother | Buch

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Beschreibung

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-centered 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 defense. 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 defense 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 wondered whether their mother really did have nothing to hide...

Über den Autor

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.

Zusammenfassung

Shortlisted for the 2017 Dingle Prize

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2015
Genre:	Importe , Technik allg.
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9780198736776
ISBN-10:	0198736770
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Rublack, Ulinka
Hersteller:	Oxford University Press(UK)
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße:	240 x 161 x 26 mm
Von/Mit:	Ulinka Rublack
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.12.2015
Gewicht:	0,752 kg