Kepler's Witch (51 page)

Tübingen University: abandonment of Kepler, 147, 148, 149; faculty's opinion of Kepler, 213; Kepler at, 49–59; Kepler's book and, 84, 94–95; Kepler's excommunication and, 287, 288; Kepler's Graz appointment and, 71–73; Kepler's letter to theology faculty at, 69; Kepler's position on Copernican universe, 59–68; Kepler's registration at, 50; Kepler's theological ideas and, 225–226, 243–244; Kepler's years at, 49; letter from Michael Mästlin, 151–152; Ludwig Kepler at, 343; professors accuse Kepler of being Calvinist, 242; rejection of Kepler, 128

Turks, 79, 100

Tychonic system: Kepler and, 154; Kepler's research and, 205; Tycho Brahe's creation of, 122–123; Tycho Brahe's death and, 155

 

ubiquity doctrine: Formula of Concord and, 247–248; Kepler's doubts about, 44, 45, 120–121; Kepler's questions about, 58

Ulm (Germany), 341–343

universe.
See also
Copernican universe; Tychonic system:
Astronomia Nova
and, 186–187; Copernican model of, 59–68, 124–125; Kepler's polyhedral hypothesis, 80–84; Tycho Brahe's model of, 122–123

University of Bologna, 251

University of Rostock, 359

Upper Austria, 333–338

Urban VIII, Pope, 215

Uriah letter, 74–75, 89

Ursus, Nicholas Reimarus: death of, 135; feud with Tycho Brahe, 122–125; Kepler's refutation of work of, 152; Tycho Brahe replaced, 128

Utraquists: Kepler's children baptized by, 203; struggle for power in Prague, 157–159; Tycho Brahe buried in Utraquist service, 155

 

Venus: Galileo's discovery of phases of, 214, 221; motions of, 174

Vienna, 160

villages, 233–235

vis motoria
, 125, 187

Vlasta, 194–195

von Nechern, Grabe, 359

von Taxis, Gerhard, 356, 358

Vy[scaron]ehrad: creation of, 146, 147; women and, 194, 195

 

Wackher von Wackenfels, Johannes Mathäus: friend of Kepler, 198; Galileo's discoveries and, 214; as godparent, 203

Wallenstein, Albert von: fighting of, 336–337; Kepler's astrological readings for, 354–358; patronage of Johannes Kepler, 358–360; portrait of,
340
; removal of, 361; success of, 347

Waltter, Max, 291

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 (Tertius Interveniens, das ist Warnung an etliche Theologos, Medicos, und Philosophos, sonderlich D. Philippum Feselium, dass sie bey billicher Verwerffung der Sternguckerischen Aberglauben nicht das Kindt mit dem Badt ausschütten und hiermit ihrer Profession unwissendtzuwider handlen
) (Kepler), 179

wars of religion, 116.
See also
Thirty Years' War water, trial by, 303

Watson, James, 92–93

Weickhard, Baron, 203

Weil der Stadt (Germany): as Catholic city, 24; Johannes Kepler born in, 23; scholarship for Kepler from, 52; Sebald Kepler as mayor of, 28–29

Weyhenmayer, Phillip Jacob, 281

wine cask measurement, 323–324

witchcraft: case against Katharina Kepler builds, 260–269; Haller girl case, 261–265; Katharina Kepler accused of witchcraft, 235–238; Katharina Kepler's return to Leonberg and, 280;
Kepler v. Reinbold
suppression, 259–260; letter about Katharina Kepler, 7–10, 255–257; letter from Kepler to duke of Württemberg on, 271–272; loss of women's rights and, 194

witchcraft trial: articles of accusation against Katharina Kepler, 281–290; in Germany in seventeenth century, 232–235; Katharina Kepler's trial/sentence, 301–305; Katharina's arrest/imprisonment, 290–292

witches: Prague founded by witch, 145–147; torture of, 302–304; witch mania in Germany, 232–235

Wittelsbach, Maria, archduchess of the House of, 77, 113

Wittelsbach, Maximilian, duke of Bavaria: at Battle of White Mountain, 313, 314; Catholic League and, 208; receives Palatinate land, 297; Wallenstein and, 361

women: conflict with men, 193–196; devil and, 235; Kepler's search for new wife, 227–229

Württemberg, duke of: Katharina Kepler's case and, 267; Katharina Kepler's release and, 305; Katharina's arrest/jailing and, 290, 292; Katharina's jail situation and, 299; Kepler's education under care of, 39; Kepler's Graz appointment and, 72, 73; Kepler's search for new position and, 212–213, 225, 226;
Kepler v. Reinbold
suppression and, 259–260; letter from Kepler to, 271–272; Luther Einhorn's letter to, 255–257, 264–265; Protestants and, 207

Württemberg (Germany): Edict of Restitution and, 361; Lutherans of, 243; as Lutheran territory, 24; as provincial place, 321

Württemberg, Herzog Johann Friedrich von.
See
Württemberg, duke of Württemberg, Lutheran church of: Kepler's excommunication and, 320–322; Kepler's prophecy about, 325–326; orthodoxy of, 246–247

 

Zimmerman, Pastor Wilhelm, 78

Zimmerman (student at Tübingen), 56, 78