Tycho & Kepler by Kitty Ferguson, Walker/Headline
TYCHO Brahe and Johannes Kepler could not have led more contrasting lives. While the young Kepler struggled to overcome deprivation and a dysfunctional family, the privileged Brahe was hobnobbing with kings.
Ferguson asks us not to view Kepler as the drab and colourless individual portrayed by many historians. But it's hard not to, in the shadow of the fascinating Tycho. Wonderfully eccentric, indulgent and with a belligerent passion for his astronomical work, he built a mad-looking observatory, ...
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