THE NOBLEMAN AND HIS HOUSEDOG: TYCHO BRAHE AND JOHANNES KEPLER - THE STRANGE PARTNERSHIP THAT REVOLUTIONISED SCIENCE (TYCHO AND KEPLER)

Book ID/图书代码： 02350411B44038

English Summary/英文概要： Johannes Kepler was an obsessive, devout teacher of astronomy, and Tycho Brahe was a cruel, extravagant aristocrat who believed the sun orbited the Earth. Kepler’s analytical abilities were said to be second to none, while Brahe was one of the best observational astronomers of all time. Their meeting in Prague in 1600 led to an extraordinary, if uneasy, alliance which eventually resulted in a huge leap forward in the understanding of astronomy. Together they produced the first three laws of planetary motion. This book tells the story of a major watershed in the history of human thought.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 人到中年，曾今的音樂大師甘願放棄事業，從新繼續兒時的夢想—只因為對科學的強烈熱愛。

暢銷作家基蒂.弗格森憑藉自己的天賦以及眾多學者的幫助（其中包括英國著名物理學家史蒂芬.霍金），以新奇獨特的角度，通俗易懂的語言重新闡釋了科學知識。

Johannes Kepler是一位癡迷而且虔誠的天文學老師，而Tycho Brahe是殘酷奢侈的貴族，並且堅信太陽圍繞地球而轉。據傳言，Kepler的分析能力天下無敵，而Brahe有史以來最優秀的觀察天文學家之一。1600年，二人在布拉格不期而遇，雖有爭鋒相對的情況，但二人的交流最終導致了人們對天文學的認識取得了巨大的進步。後來，他們一道提出了行星運動的三大首要定律。本書講述了人類思想史上一個重要風水嶺的故事。（兼职翻译-徐曼曼）

Awards/获奖情况：From Publishers Weekly
The story of how Copernicus replaced the prevailing geocentric view of the universe with his heliocentric model is a familiar one. Less familiar are Tycho Brahe’s contributions to astronomy and his influence on Johannes Kepler, who revolutionized 17th-century thinking about planetary movements. Science writer Ferguson’s intellectual and cultural biography of these two seminal scientists provides a delightful, detailed look into the ways that each man developed his ideas about the universe. Brahe, a Danish nobleman, developed a variety of instruments for observing the heavens. In his observatory off the coast of Denmark, he built a magnificent armillary-an instrument that allowed him to construct his theory that Venus and Mercury orbit the Sun while the Sun and the outer planets orbit the unmoving Earth. In 1600, Brahe took on a brilliant young student named Kepler, whom Brahe asked to carry on his own work after his death. Though indebted to Brahe for his instruments and his detailed charts of the stars, ultimately Kepler departed from Brahe’s views, confirming instead Copernicus’s theory that all the planets orbit the Sun. More famously, he discovered that the planets had elliptical rather than circular orbit. Ferguson (Measuring the Universe) paints her picture of Brahe and Kepler in broad strokes, placing them among the political intrigues of their times and the conflict between religion and science. Her biography offers glimpses of two men completely enamored of the beauty of the stars and planets and their attempts to describe the world through the eyes of this great love. 16 color and 30 b&w illus., 2 maps. Library of Science Book Club alternate selection.

From Library Journal
Ferguson (Measuring the Universe) continues to wield her gift as a popular science writer in this double biography of Renaissance astronomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler. This watershed relationship in the history of science is fascinating for several reasons. Ferguson’s subjects lived and worked during a turbulent time when medieval thought was starting to give way to modern concepts and a scientific explanation of the world. In his own way, each epitomized the new scientific method of careful observation of the facts (Tycho) and their interpretation or explanation based on rational, rather than religious, thought (Kepler). In addition, Tycho’s and Kepler’s lives are interesting in their own right. As with her earlier books, Ferguson has a wonderful ability not only to explain her topic and its significance but also to render the historical background in such a way that the participants do not seem to be either incredibly farsighted prophets or quaint characters fumbling for explanations. Highly recommended for academic and public libraries.

About the Author/作者介绍： 基蒂.弗格森從孩提時代開始就深深地喜愛上了天文學和物理學。大學從茱莉亞音樂學院畢業後，基蒂在此後的二十年裡一直從事音樂行業。時間並沒有消磨基蒂曾經的夢想，她毅然決然重頭開始學習相關知識。到目前為止，基蒂已出版了多本暢銷書籍，其中包括Black Holes in Space Time和Stephen Hawking: Quest for a Theory of Everything.

Kitty Ferguson, a former professional musician with a life long interest in science, is an independent scholar and lecturer who lives in Cambridge, England, and South Carolina. She has also written the best-selling books Black Holes in Space Time and Stephen Hawking: Quest for a Theory of Everything.

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