The Sleepwalkers (301 page)

Kepler,
Johannes,
13
,
14
,
15
,
33
,
77
,
169
,
170
,
171
,
199

accident
proneness,
230

and
Baer,
298

and
Copernicus,
168
,
239
,
240
,
248
,
251
,
253
-4,
256
-7,
261
,
287

and
gravity,
337
-40

and
Galileo,
351
,
355
,
356
,
358
-61,
370
-8

and
Maestlin,
268
-9,
270
,
275
,
281
,
282

and
The
Revolutions
Preface
,
168
-71

and
Tycho,
276
,
278
,
279
,
282
,
286
,
298
,
299
,
301
-12

and
Wallenstein,
413
-4,
419
,
420

appointed
Imperial
Mathematicus,
312

arithmetical
errors,
321

astrologer,
242
-6

at
Benatek,
302
et
seq.

attitude
to
women,
237

birth,
229

Chaplinesque
quality,
349
,
404

circular
motion
rejected
by,
324
et
seq.

comparison
with
Copernicus
and
Tycho,
335

confirms
Galileo's
discoveries,
378

cosmic
cup,
269
-71

death,
422

defends
his
mother,
384
-8

definition
of
"weight",
499
,

Dioptrice
,
379

education,
231
,
233
-4,
238

effect
of
Tycho's
observations
on,
303
,
304

egg
orbit,
329
-31

"eight
minutes
arc",
322
-3,
328

ellipse
orbit,
332

explains
the
tides,
338

excommunicated,
383
,
408

false
theories,
325
-6

first
concept
of
universal
gravity,
308
,
317

first
science-fiction
work,
415
-9

Harmony
of
the
World
,
388
-98

horoscopes,
225
,
231
-2,
234
-7
et
seq.
272
,
273

geneological,
227
et
seq.

hypochondria,
230
,
231
,
237
,
242
,
350

international
fame,
349

lack
of
self-assurance,
306
-7,
349

last
journey,
420
-2

marriage,
271
-4

second,
399
-404

mathematicus
in
Linz,
382

meeting
with
Tycho,
302
-3

Mysterium
Cosmographicum
,
247
-61

Notes
to,
264
-5

on
interplanetary
travel,
373

on
Rheticus,
160
-1

paradoxical
dualism
of,
241
,
262

Perfect
Solids,
247
-53,
254

planetary
laws,
247
,
255
,
258
,
260
,
264
,
265
,
277
,
313
-4,
324
,
326
-36,
394
-8,
497
,
502

polemics
on
Ursus
and
Craig,
309
-10

Professor
of
mathematics,
238
,
241
-2

proves
his
own
hypotheses
false,
322
-3

quarrels
with
Tycho,
305
-8

receives
loan
of
telescope,
378

religious
faith,
280
-1

Rudolphine
Tables,
407
-11

scientific
method,
404
-5

self-portrait,
236
-7,
238
-9,
241

steals
Tycho's
observations,
345

study
of
Mars,
303
,
315
-36

the
New
Astronomy
,
313
et
seq.
,
344
-6

theory
of
birth
of
Christ,
381

uniform
motion
rejected,
317

unpopularity
with
schoolmates,
234
-5

Kepler,
Katherine
(Frau
Heinrich
Kepler),
226
,
229
-30,
231

accused
of
witchcraft,
384
-8