The Astronomer and the Witch

Produktbeschreibung

The extraordinary tale of Johannes Kepler, one of the most admired astronomers of all time, and the six long years spent defending his mother from her neighbours' accusations of witchcraft. A story which takes us to the heart of Kepler's changing world. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Timeline of Johannes Kepler's Life, 1571-1620
Note on Dates
List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
Maps
Prologue
Introduction
1: Katharina's Life
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: Katharina's Imprisonment
10: Kepler's Return
11: The Defence
12: The Trial Ends
13: Kepler's Dream
Epilogue
Notes
Further Reading and Viewing
Acknowledgements
Index 

Kritik

Compelling. Hannah Murphy, Isis Review 

Autoreninfo

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 edited the Oxford Concise Companion to History (2011), and, most recently, the Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformation (2016). 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.