Kepler´s heritage in the Space Age. 400th anniversary of Astronomia nova

0358381 - ÚSD 2012 CZ eng B - Monography
Hadravová, Alena (ed.) - Mahoney, T. J. (ed.) - Hadrava, Petr (ed.)
Kepler´s heritage in the Space Age. 400th anniversary of Astronomia nova.
Prague: National Technical Museum, 2010. 186 s. Acta historiae rerum naturalium necnon technicarum, 10. ISBN 978-80-7037-193-0
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z80630520; CEZ:AV0Z10030501
Keywords : history of astronomy * Johannes Kepler
Subject RIV: AB - History

The book was prepared on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of publishing Johannes Kepler´s "Astronomia nova" (Heidelberg 1609). Contributions by authors from all over the world deal in this volume with different aspects of Kepler´s life and work in sections titled: Kepler´s Astronomia nova; Kepler´s Mathematics; Kepler and Prague; Kepler´s Contemporaries; Kepler´s Heritage. An attached CD-ROM contains PDF version of the whole volume, short animations belonging to several articles, and scans of two old prints: of Kepler´s treatises "Dissertatio cum Nuncio sidereo" and "Astronomia nova".
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0196445