Authors: James A. Connor
Einhorn, Luther:
ad torturam
action by, 298; cases against Katharina, 263â265; fight with Keplers, 267; friendship with Ursula Reinbold, 235â237; Katharina Kepler's release and, 305â306; Katharina Kepler's return to Leonberg and, 280â281; letter to duke of Württemberg, 255â257; questioning of Katharina and, 292; summoning of Katharina Kepler, 237â238; suppression of
Kepler v. Reinbold
, 259â260; testimony given to, 19â20; warning about Katharina, 266
Elizabeth I, Queen of England: flees Prague, 315â316; John Dee and, 181â182, 183; reign of, 49
Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia, 294â298
ellipses: Kepler's planetary motion and, 177; law of, 172â173
emotional breakdown, 162
emperor.
See also
specific emperor names: Friedrich III and Graz, 76; imperial cities and, 23, 24
enemies, 35â36
Ephemerides
(Kepler), 360
epicycles: Kepler's book and, 84; planetary orbits and, 65, 174
Epitome Astronomiae Copernicanae, Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
(Kepler), 323, 325
Epitome Astronomiae
(Mästlin), 323, 325
Erickson, Johannes, 153
Ernest, brother of Rudolf II: death of, 165; in Spain, 160â161
Ernst of Cologne, 219, 221
eulogy, 141â142
Everhard the Bearded, Count of Württemberg, 51
excommunication, 5, 18, 287â288, 320â322
executioners, 316â319
executions, 316â319
Â
Fabricius, Johannes, 279
Fadinger, Stephen, 337
Faust
(Goethe), 53
fear, 288â289
Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria: attack on Rome by, 108; banishment of Lutherans, 102â103, 117â118; beliefs of, 159; exemption of Johannes Kepler, 118, 120; forces Protestants to convert to Catholicism, 138â139; Kepler's dedication to, 88; Kepler's essay and, 136, 137; mission of, 113â114; portrait of,
106
; Protestant faiths banned by, 127â128, 207
Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor: beheading of Johannes Jessenius by, 170; Catholicization program of, 333â338; Edict of Restitution and, 361; execution of Protestants by, 316â319; Kepler's illness and, 362â363; Kepler's presentation of
Rudolphine Tables
to, 345â349; loss of king of Bohemia role, 293; money owed to Kepler, 359; occupation of Linz, 333; Protestants of Bohemia and, 294â298; wish to convert Kepler to Catholicism, 358
Ferdinand III, King of Bohemia, 348, 361
Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia, 275â279
Ferdinand II, prince of Habsburg, 50, 77
Feselius, Philip, 179â180
Feucht, Werner, 292
fever: of Barbara Kepler, 222â223; of Johannes Kepler, 148, 150, 151, 152, 362â363
Fickler, Benigna, 119, 342
Fickler, Johann Baptiste, 119
Fickler, Michael, 119
fire, death by, 302â303
Fischer, Balthasar, 114
Fludd, Robert, 203
Forerunner of the Cosmological Essays, Which Contains the Secret of the Universe
(Kepler).
See Prodomus Dissertationum Cosmographicarum, Continens Mysterium Cosmographicum,
the
Forerunner of the Cosmological Essays, Which Contains the Secret of the Universe
(Kepler)
Formula of Concord: Kepler and, 212, 213; Kepler's excommunication and, 287â288; Kepler's hopes for position at Tübingen and, 225â226; Kepler's problems with Lutheran church and, 242â251; Kepler's thoughts about, 242
France, 347
Frankfurt Book Fair, 345
Frederick IV, elector Palatine: flight of, 241; predestination and, 213; Protestants gathered around, 207
Frederick, Sigismun, 88
Friedrich III, Holy Roman Emperor, 76
Friedrich V, King of Bohemia: Battle of White Mountain and, 312â313; defeat of followers of, 336â337; flees Prague, 315â316; in Netherlands, 334; time as king, 293â298
Fromond, Jane, 183
Frühneuhochdeutsh
, 6
Frundsberg, Georg von, 108
Fugger, Georg, 218
Â
Gabelkover, Hieronymous, 299â300
Galilei, Galileo: charges of heresy, 15; Collegio Romano and, 113; discoveries of/telescope of, 214â222; Kepler's defense of, 126; Kepler's search for job and, 226; mathematics teacher in Pisa, 50;
Mysterium Cosmographicum
and, 115, 118; mythology of, 3, 4â5; opinion of astrology, 79; tides and, 187; trouble of, 84; view of astrology, 179
Galilei, Vincenzo, 326
gallows, 317
Gasthaus zum Engel (Inn of the Angel), 25
geocentric system, 60, 61â62
geometry: harmony and, 327â328, 329, 331â333; Kepler on, 126; Kepler's love of, 308; Kepler's polyhedral hypothesis, 80â84; rules universe, 218
Gerlack, Superintendent, 73
Germans, 171â172
Germany.
See also
specific cities of: as part of Holy Roman Empire, 23â24; witch mania in, 232â235
God: astronomy/astrology and, 43; Kepler's astronomy and, 82, 83, 91â93; Kepler's belief in harmony and, 125â127; Kepler's beliefs about, 350â351; Kepler's pursuit of, 120; Kepler's relationship to, 54; Kepler's search for, 84; Kepler's work about, 3; models of universe and, 62â63, 66â67, 124; studies and, 40â43; war and, 335
Gödelmann, Johan Georg, 198
godparents, 203
Goethe, 53
Gonzaga, Farrante, 111
gravitation, 186â187
gravity, law of, 94
Graz (Austria): banishment of Lutherans, 117â118; history of, 75â77; Kepler as mathematics teacher in, 71â84; Kepler on move to, 47; Kepler's exemption/return to, 118â122; Kepler's visit to, 152â153; Lutheran persecution in, 116â117; position offered to Kepler, 68, 69; Protestant faiths banned, 127â128; Protestants forced to convert to Catholicism in, 138â140; trouble in, 102â103
Great Britain, 49
Greeks, 59
Greene, Robert, 50
Gregorian calendar, 97â98
Gregory, David, 5
Gregory of Tours, Saint, 97
Gregory XIII, Pope, 97, 113
Grienberger, Father, 119
Grüninger, Erasmus, 320â321
Güglingen: Katharina Kepler jailed in, 298â299, 301; Katharina moved to, 292
Güglingen Tower, 292, 298â299, 301
Guillén de San Clemente, 183
Guldenmann, Melchior, 93â94
Guldin, Paul: on conversion, 354; friendship with Kepler, 336; hope to convert Kepler to Catholicism, 350, 352, 353
Gültlinger, Donatus: testimony of, 19â20; Ursula Reinbold and, 236
Güstenhofer, Philip Jakob, 181
Â
Habsburgs: Catholics
vs.
Protestants and, 207; Friedrich V and, 293â298; Graz and, 76â77; madness amongst, 159â160; Prague and, 172; Second Defenestration of Prague and, 275â279
Hafenreffer, Matthias: cold to Kepler, 213; Kepler's excommunication and, 287, 288, 321â322; Kepler's Graz appointment and, 72; Kepler tries to reconcile with, 320; Kepler
vs
. Zimmerman, 56; taught Scripture, 55
Hall, Asaph, 222
Haller, Frau, 261â264
Haller girl, 261â264, 284
Haller, Jörg: described, 261; Katharina Kepler and, 255â256, 257; Katharina's estate and, 267
Halley, Edmond, 5
Hamlet
(Shakespeare), 135
handwriting,
310
Harmonice Mundi, Harmony of the World
(Kepler), 2; excerpt from, 307â308; Kepler begins work on, 125â127; Kepler's work on harmony in, 326â333; Kepler works on, 320, 322â323
harmonic law, 328â329
harmony: Kepler's astronomy and, 65; Kepler's beliefs about, 125â127; Kepler's search for, 58â59; Kepler's work on/beliefs about, 326â333
Harmony of the World
(Kepler).
See Harmonice Mundi, Harmony of the World
(Kepler)
Harmony
(Ptolemy), 328
Hausen[scaron]ild, Dr., 318
Hayes, Catherine, 302
Heerbrand, Jakob, 55
heliostatic universe, 59â68
Henry VIII, King of England, 111
heresy: Kepler accused of, 288; Protestants works as, 127â128
Herodias, 52
Hettler, Joseph, 203
Hitzler, Daniel: Kepler and Communion, 243â246, 248; Kepler's excommunication and, 287, 320; Kepler writes to, 336; portrait of,
230
; in prison, 333
Hoffmann, Johann Friedrich: Kepler's stay with, 150; letter to Kepler from, 156; ride to Prague with Kepler, 128â129
Hohenberg, Herwart von: congratulations to Kepler, 156; as godparent, 203; Kepler chronology work and, 125; Kepler's exemption and, 119; Kepler's inquiry about work, 136; Kepler's letter about Lutheran banishment, 117, 118; letter from Kepler about astronomy, 176; letter from Kepler to, 102â104; loan of
Harmony
(Ptolemy), 328
Holland, 298
Holy Roman Empire, 23â24
Holywood, John, 97
homosexuals, 112
Horky, Martin, 215
horoscope.
See also
astrology: for Heinrich Kepler, 115; of Johannes Kepler, 31â33, 35â36
Horst, Gregor, 342
Hospitale de Santo Spirito, 110
human beings, 126
Hungarian spotted fever, 222
Hus, Jan, 157
Hussite Carolinum University, 276
Hussites, 157â159
Â
icosahedron, 81
Ignatius of Loyola, 160
indulgences, 112
infinite cosmos, 60
Inn of the Angel (Gasthaus zum Engel), 25
inquisition, 243
intellectuals, 87â88
Isabel of Spain, 165
Â
Jacob and Rebecca, 37
Jaeger (Kepler's cousin), 73â74
jailing: of Katharina Kepler, 291â292, 298â299, 301; time for Katharina Kepler, 305
James I, King of England: Friedrich V and, 296; John Dee and, 183
Jaroslave of Martinic, 277â279
Jessenius, Johannes: autopsy performed by, 177â178; execution of, 170, 318â319; friend of Kepler, 198; Kepler and Tycho Brahe and, 132â134
Jesuits: banished from Prague, 294; calendar and, 97â98; Collegio Romano of, 113; founding of, 112; friendship with Kepler, 198, 336, 346; hope to convert Kepler to Catholicism, 139â140, 322, 349â351, 352, 353; Kepler's exemption and, 119; Lutheran school in Graz and, 77; in Prague, 158; in Sagan, 359
Jesuit schools, 127
Jesus Christ, 44
Jews: attacked in Prague, 210; conversion to Christianity, 171; expelled from Rome, 113; of Prague, 172; Second Defenestration of Prague and, 279
Johannes Kepler Gesammelte Werke
(Caspar), 6
Jörger, Helmhard, 240
Juana “the Mad” of Castile, 159, 160
Julian calendar, 97
Julius III, Pope, 112
Jupiter: Galileo's discovery of moons of, 214; Kepler's love of geometry and, 308; Kepler's observation of moons of, 219â220; motions of, 174, 186; orbit of, 80â81
Â
Kabbalah, 166
Karlova Street, 170
Kelley, Edward: arrival in Prague, 181; life of, 182â184; at Prague Castle, 165â166
Kepler, Anna Maria, 361
Kepler, Barbara: children of, 202â204; complaints about Tycho Brahe, 153; death of, 226; illness/death of, 189â190; illnesses of, 222â223; inheritance of, 121; leaves Graz, 140; life in Prague for, 150; marriage problems with Johannes Kepler, 196â202; money of, 239; move to Prague, 147â149; travel of, 204
Kepler
(Caspar), 6
Kepler, Christoph: birth of, 45; distance from witchcraft trial, 292; Haller girl incident and, 263; Katharina in Heumaden and, 266; Katharina's estate and, 267; as pewterer, 28; protection of family fortune, 300; Ursula Reinbold and, 232, 236
Kepler, Cordula, 254
Kepler, Fridmar, 254, 339
Kepler, Friedrich: birth of, 202; death of, 223, 224; father's love of, 204; godparents of, 203
Kepler, Heinrich (brother of Johannes Kepler): father attempts to sell, 26; in Prague, 204; problems of, 28; statements against Katharina Kepler, 282, 286
Kepler, Heinrich (father of Johannes Kepler): abandonment of Katharina, 16; absence of, 26â27; Kepler's boyhood and, 39; Kepler's education and, 38
Kepler, Heinrich (son of Johannes Kepler), 115â116
Kepler, Hildebert, 254
Kepler, Johannes: accusations against Katharina and, 280â281; accusations/court action against Katharina, 13â18; at Adelberg school, 44â46; Albert von Wallenstein's patronage of, 358â360; appeal to duke about Katharina, 290; area law formulation, 184; arrival in Prague, 150â151;
Astonomia Nova
work of, 185â187; astrological readings for Albert von Wallenstein, 354â358; astrology and, 177, 178â180, 181;
Astronomia Nova
, obstruction to printing, 205â207;
Astronomia Nova
publication, 211â212;
Astronomia Nova
quote, 47; astronomy and God, 91â93; attack on Prague and, 210; birth of, 23; birth of Anna Maria Kepler, 360â361; boyhood of, 36â38; calendar debate and, 96â99; children of, 202â204; collaboration with Tycho Brahe, 152â154; Copernican model of universe and, 59â68; Counter-Reformation in Prague and, 158â159; courtship of Barbara Müller, 89â90; death of Barbara Kepler and, 226; death of daughter Katharina Kepler, 319â320; death of Friedrich Kepler and, 223â224; death of Margaret Regina Kepler and, 326; defense of Katharina Kepler, 299â301; enemies of, 35â36; excommunication from Lutheran church, 287â288, 320â322; exemption/return to Graz, 118â122; family of, 24â29; Ferdinand's mission and, 114; fight with Tycho Brahe, 132â134; Galileo's discoveries/telescope, 214â222; gossip about Katharina and, 260; handwriting of,
310
;
Harmonice Mundi
, 125â127, 307â308; harmony work of, 326â333; horoscope of, 31â33; house on Leonberg market square,
12
; illness of Barbara Kepler, 222â223; illness of/death of, 362â364; as imperial mathematician, 156â157; journal excerpt, 229, 339; Katharina Kepler's release and, 306; Katharina's move to Linz and, 265; Katharina's trial/sentence and, 301â302;
Kepler v. Reinbold
, 268â269; at Latin school, 38â43; leaves Graz, 140; leaves Prague, 239; in Leonberg for Katharina's defense, 268â269; letter from Kepler to Johann Matthias Bernegger, 339; letter from Kepler to the Senate of Leonberg, 7â10; letters to Johann Georg Brengger, 167; letter to duke of Württemberg, 268, 271â272; letter to Michael Mästlin, 85; letter to Tobias Scultetus, 189â190; letter to unknown nobleman, 227â229; Lutheran persecution in Graz, 116â117; Lutherans banished from Graz, 117â118, 127â128; marriage/family of, 114â116; marriage of daughter, 360; marriage portrait of,
86
; marriage problems with Barbara Kepler, 196â202; marriage to Barbara Müller, 96, 99â100; marriage to Susanna Reuttinger, 254; as mathematics teacher in Graz, 71â84; motion of moon theories of, 136â138; move to Linz, 239â240;
Mysterium Cosmographicum
dedication, 87â88;
Mysterium Cosmographicum
publication, 93â96; planetary orbits and, 172â177; Prague Castle and, 165â166; Prague residences of, 169â170; presentation of
Rudolphine Tables
to Ferdinand II, 345â349; pressure to convert to Catholicism, 349â354; problems with Lutheran church/accusation of heresy, 242â251; Protestants forced to convert to Catholicism, 138â140; publishing of, 324â325;
Rudolphine Tables
publication, 341â345; search for new position, 212â213, 225â226; search for new wife, 251â253; travels of, 204â205; travel to Güglingen, 292; travel to Prague, 147â149; at Tübingen University, 49â59; Tycho Brahe and Nicholas Reimarus Ursus, 122â125; Tycho Brahe, hopes to
secure position with, 134â136; Tycho Brahe's collaboration with, 129â133; Tycho Brahe's death and, 155â156; Tycho Brahe's invitation to, 128â129; war/troubles in Linz and, 333â338; wine cask measurement work by, 323â324; witchcraft and, 259â260