Authors: James A. Connor
perspicullum
.
See
telescope
Pfalz-Neuberg, Wolfgang Wilhelm von, 203
Philip II, King of Spain, 160â161
Philip, Landgrave of Hesse, 346
Philip the Handsome, 160
Phillip III, King of Spain, 297
philosophy: God and, 41; Kepler on inclination towards, 47; Kepler's position on Copernican universe, 59â68; Kepler's relationship to, 57â59
Physica
(Aristotle), 57
physics, 94
Piazza del Campidoglio, 111
piety, 200â201
pilgrims, 51
Pisorius, Johannes: supervision of Kepler's work, 206; theological debates with Kepler, 198â199
Pius IV, Pope, 112â113
plague, 204â205
Planck, Johannes: house burned, 338; printer for Kepler, 324
planetary motion: Kepler's laws of, 172â173; Kepler's work on, 172â177
planetary orbits:
Astronomia Nova
and, 185â187; Kepler's orbit of Mars theory, 130â131, 152; Kepler's polyhedral hypothesis, 80â84; Kepler's work on, 172â177; motion of moon, 137â138
planets, 64â65.
See also
specific planets Plato: Kepler and harmony and, 329â330, 331; music and, 126; view of human person, 61
Platonic solids, 81â82
Pliny, 186
Pøemysl: founding of Prague and, 146, 147; women and, 193â195
Polheim, Herr von, 240
polygons, 331â332
polyhedral hypothesis: of Kepler, 80â84; Tycho Brahe and, 123â124
Polyxena of Lobkovic, 279
Ponticus, Heracleides, 60
Prague (Austria, now Czech Republic): astronomical clock in,
34
; attack on, 210â211, 223, 224; Catholic army enters, 315â316; charlatans in, 180â181, 183â184; described, 170â172; execution of Protestants in, 316â319; under Ferdinand II's rule, 347â349; founding of, 145â147; Friedrich V as king of Bohemia and, 293â294, 295â296, 297â298; Kepler as Tycho Brahe's assistant in, 152; Kepler in, 133â134; Kepler leaves, 239; Kepler's arrival in, 150â151; Kepler's residences in, 169â170; Kepler's travel to, 147â149; Matthias marches on, 209; museum of, 162â163, 164; plague in, 204â205; Protestant/Catholic tensions in, 207; Rudolf II moves court to, 162â163; Second Defenestration of Prague,
274
, 275â279; Tycho Brahe's invitation to Kepler, 128â129
Prague Castle: Catholic army enters Prague, 315â316; Friedrich and Elizabeth in, 296; Johannes Kepler at, 156, 165â166; Matthias moves into, 211; museum at, 162â163
Praha
(Threshold), 146â147
preachers: archduke Ferdinand and, 114; Lutheran banishment and, 121
predestination: Calvinists rejection of, 213; Kepler's doubts about, 45
pricking, 303â304
priests: called to higher standard, 112; killing/torture of, 110
printing press, 359â360
Prodomus Dissertationum Cosmographicarum, Continens Mysterium Cosmographicum,
the
Forerunner of the Cosmological Essays, Which Contains the Secret of the Universe
(Kepler): Kepler's dedication in, 87â88; publication of, 91â96, 115; search for publisher, 84; Tycho Brahe and, 122, 123â124; Tycho Brahe's data and, 130; writing of, 83
A Profession of Faith and Defense Against Numerous Unjust Rumors Which Arose Because of It
(Kepler), 322
prostitutes, 113
Protestants.
See also
Lutherans: Battle of White Mountain, 311â316; choice of Friedrich V for king of Bohemia, 293â298; Counter-Reformation and, 113â114; Counter-Reformation in Prague and, 157â159; Edict of Restitution and, 361; execution of, 316â319; Ferdinand's Catholicization program, 333â338; forced to convert to Catholicism, 138â140; gone from Prague, 349; Lutheran persecution in Graz, 116â117; Lutherans banished from Graz, 117â118; persecution in Sagan, 359; Protestant faiths banned, 127â128; Rudolf II and, 211â212; Second Defenestration of Prague and, 275â279; tensions with Catholics, 207â211
Protestant Union, 312
Ptolemy, Claudius: epicycles and, 174; geocentric system of, 60;
Harmony
by, 328; Michael Mästlin's book and, 325; model of universe, 64â65, 175, 186
publishing: Kepler involved in, 324â325; Kepler's printing press, 359â360
puzzles of Galileo, 221â222
Â
quintessence, 217
R
Ramée, Colonel, 210
rape, 110
Rebstock (student at Tübingen), 57
Reformation: chaos of, 14; Graz and, 76â77; as separate entity, 113
Reformation Commission, 351â352
refraction, 172
Regensburg (Germany): author in, 364; Kepler's family in, 342; Kepler's last days in, 362â364
Regius, Johannes, 77, 78
Reinbold, Jakob: accusations against Katharina Kepler and, 237, 281â285; Katharina Kepler's return to Leonberg and, 280; Katharina's money and, 300; Katharina's release and, 305; petition to duke, 266â267; slander trial and, 269; success of, 232
Reinbold, Ursula: accusations against Katharina Kepler, 236â237, 281â285; Benedict Beutelsbacher's testimony about, 20; character of/trouble with Katharina Kepler, 231â232; Donatus Gültlinger's testimony about, 19; Haller girl incident and, 262; Katharina Kepler's return to Leonberg and, 280; Katharina's release and, 305; Kepler's mother and, 7â8;
Kepler v. Reinbold
, 259â260, 290; Luther Einhorn and, 235â236; slander trial and, 269; summoning of Katharina Kepler and, 237â238
religion.
See also
Catholic church; Counter-Reformation; Lutheran church: Catholic/Lutheran churches, 37â38; Catholic/Protestant tensions, 207â211; as cause for war, 335; in Graz, 76â77; for Kepler at Tübingen, 53â55; Kepler's beliefs, 39â46; Kepler's boyhood and, 36â37; Lutheran church/Catholic church, 24; models of universe and, 62â63, 66â67; piety of Barbara Kepler, 200â201; Second Defenestration of Prague, 275â279; ubiquity doctrine, 44; wars of, 116
religious art, 171
Renaissance, 107, 111
Reuttinger, Susanna.
See also
Kepler, Susanna (wife of Johannes Kepler): Kepler's courtship of, 228, 229, 252â253; marriage to Johannes Kepler, 251, 254
revolts, peasant, 79â80, 337â338
Richelieu, Cardinal, 337, 361
Roffeni, Giovanni Antonio, 251
Rome (Italy): attack on, 108â111; rebuilding of, 111â113
Rosenkrantz, Friedrich, 135, 163
Rozmberk, Peter Vok Ursinus, 155
Rozmberk, Vilém of, 183
Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor: astrology and, 181;
Astronomia Nova
and, 206â207; charlatans and, 180, 183â184; Counter-Reformation in Prague and, 158â159; death of, 211, 239; death of father, 161â162; as emperor, 162; family of, 159â160; interviews with Judah Löw, 166; John Dee and Edward Kelley and, 183, 184; Kepler as imperial mathematician for, 156; Kepler on, 101; Kepler's astrological advice to, 224â225; Kepler's salary and, 197â198; Matthias takes power from, 208â211; Protestants and, 211â212;
Rudolphine Tables
and, 154â155, 205â206; in Spain, 160â161; Tycho Brahe and, 148, 150â151
Rudolphine Tables
(Kepler): Franz Gansneb Tengnagel von Camp and, 130; Kepler not able to work on, 320; Keplers work on, 156; nobility of, 324; presentation to Ferdinand II, 345â349; printer's house burned, 338; publication of, 342â345; rights to publish work of Tycho Brahe, 205â206; Rudolf II and, 154â155; search for publisher for, 341â342; Tycho Brahe and, 124; Tycho Brahe's family and, 156â157
Rüff, Johannes, 299
Ruff, Rudolf, 52
Rumpf, Wolfgang von, 160
Â
Sagan, duchy of, 358â361, 362
Santiago de Compostela, 51
Sárka, 195
Saturn: Galileo's observations of, 221; motions of, 174, 186; orbit of, 80â81; sun in sixth house, 32
Sauer, Jonas, 342â343
Scheiner, Father, 215
Schmid, Stephan, 203
Schützenbastian, Barbara, 289
Scotta, Alessandro, 181
Scultetus, Tobias, 189â190
séance, 182, 183
Second Defenestration of Prague: drawing of,
274
; events of, 275â279; Thirty Years' War and, 241
seminarians, 53
Senate of Leonberg, 7â10
Senate of Tübingen, 94â95
sermons, 53â54
Shakespeare, William, 50, 135
Siderius Nuncius, The Starry Messenger
(Galileo), 215â216
Silesia, 358â361, 362
Sistine Chapel, 111
Sixtus V, Pope, 50
slander trial: disappearance of, 290; Einhorn and, 267, 268â269; stopped by Einhorn, 265; suppression of, 259â260
Slavata, Vilém, 277â279 [Scaron]lik, Count, 318
smallpox, 26â27, 223
Smiøick[yacute], Jan, 276
Society of Jesus.
See
Jesuits
The Sojourn Against the Starry Messenger, Peregrinatio Contra Nuncium Sydereum
(Horky), 215
Somnium seu Astronomia Lunari, The Dream, or Astronomy of the Moon
(Kepler), 67â68, 360
Spain: attack on Rome and, 108; Most Fortunate Spanish Armada, 49; Rudolf II in, 160â161
Speidel, Stephan, 90
The Sphere of Sacrobosco
(Holywood), 97
spirit, 61â62
spirit of movement (
anima movens
), 94
spiritual privileges, 112
Stadius, Georg, 71â72
Stahl, Michael, 283, 286â287
Stände
, 117â118, 139
Starhemberg, Elizabeth von, 251
Starhemberg, Erasmus von, 240, 250â251
The Starry Messenger, Siderius Nuncius
(Galileo), 215â216
stars.
See also
astrology; astronomy: Galileo's discoveries and the telescope, 214â222; Kepler's beliefs about, 167; Kepler's book on new star, 185
Sternberg, Adam of, 277â278
Stift
.
See also
Tübingen University: denunciations in, 55; education at, 44; students at, 52
Stiftkirche
, 53â54
Stiftschule
.
See
Lutheran high school, Graz (Austria)
Stone Bridge, 318, 319
The Story of the Satellites of Jupiter, Narratio de Jovis Satellitibus
(Kepler), 220
Stromair, Dr., 354, 355
Stubenvoll, Colonel, 314
Stuttgart consistory: accuse Kepler of heresy, 288; denied petition for Katharina's arrest, 280; Katharina Kepler and, 266; Kepler and Calvinism and, 259; Kepler's theology and, 243â248
Stuttgart (Germany): Kepler in school at, 95; Kepler petitions duke in, 212
sun: Kepler's polyhedral hypothesis and, 94â95; in models of universe, 175; in sixth house, 82
Sweden, 347
Â
Talbot, Edward.
See
Kelley, Edward
Tampach, 344, 345
telescope: Galileo's discoveries with, 214â218; Johannes Kepler and, 218â221
temper, 46
Tengnagel von Camp, Franz Gansneb: Kepler and, 130; Tycho Brahe's work and Kepler, 205â206
Tertius Interveniens, das ist Warnung an etliche Theologos, Medicos, und Philosophos, sonderlich D. Philippum F eselium, dass sie bey billicher Verwerffung der Sternguckerischen Aberglauben nicht das Kindt mit dem Badt ausschütten und hiermit ihrer Profession unwissendtzuwider handlen (A Warning to Certain Theologians, Physicians, and Philosophers, Especially D. Philip Feselius, That by Cheaply Condemning the Superstition of the Stargazer, They Not Throw the Baby Out with the Bath, Thus Acting Against Their Own Profession)
(Kepler), 179
tetrahedron, 81
theology: Johannes Pisorius and Kepler, 198â199; Kepler's hypothesis and, 84; Kepler's letter to theology faculty at Tübingen, 69; models of universe and, 66â67
Thirty Years' War: Battle of White Mountain, 311â316; beginning of, 166; Edict of Restitution and, 361; end of first phase, 347; execution of Protestants, 316â319; Ferdinand's Catholicization program and, 333â338; Friedrich V as king of Bohemia and, 293â298; Kepler leaves Linz during, 341; Second Defenestration of Prague and, 275â279
Threshold (
Praha
), 146â147
Thurn, Count Matthias: at Battle of White Mountain, 312, 314, 315; Second Defenestration of Prague and, 276, 277, 278
tides, 187
Tilly, Jean T'Serclaus, Baron of: Albert von Wallenstein and, 336, 337; at Battle of White Mountain, 313, 314, 315
torture: instruments of,
258
; Katharina Kepler and, 304â305; of witches/heretics, 302â304
translations: author on, 6; Kepler's
Astronomia Nova
, 47; from Kepler's eulogy on the death of Tycho Brahe, 141â142; from Kepler's
Harmonice Mundi
, 307â308; Kepler's horoscope, 31â33; from Kepler's journal, 229, 339; letter from Kepler to Herwart von Hohenberg, 102â104; letter from Kepler to Herzog Johann Friedrich von Württemberg, 271â272; letter from Kepler to Johann Matthias Bernegger, 339; letter from Kepler to Michael Mästlin, 85, 101; letter from Kepler to Senate of Leonberg, 7â10; letter from Kepler to theology faculty at Tübingen, 69; letter from Kepler to Tobias Scultetus, 189â190; letter from Kepler to unknown nobleman, 227â229; letter from Luther Einhorn to duke of Württemberg, 255â257; letters from Kepler to Johann Georg Brengger, 167; testimonies against Katharina Kepler, 19â21
transubstantiation, doctrine of, 44
travel: in Kepler's day, 73â74; Kepler's travels, 204â205
Trent, Council of, 112
trial by water, 303
Trinity, 332
truth, 120
Tschernembl, Georg Erasmus von: defense of Kepler, 250â251; defense of Prague and, 315; friendship with Kepler, 240; Kepler and, 79â80
T'Serclaus, Jean.
See
Tilly, Jean T'Serclaus, Baron of Tübingen (Germany): astronomical clock in,
48
; description of, 50â52; law faculty review of Katharina Kepler's case, 18, 301â302; Senate of, 94â95