Kerry Kuehn is Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Wisconsin Lutheran College. He is a member of the American Physical Society and an Advisory Council member for NASA Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium and Fidelitas (WLC Honors Program).

He has designed and taught courses including "The Heavens and the Earth," "Space, Time and Motion," "Electricity, Magnetism and Light," and "Computerized Instrumentation and Design."

Provides a comprehensive introduction to physics based on foundational texts in physics and astronomy

Contains a coherent and self-contained general physics curriculum which can be readily implemented at the college or advanced high-school level

Encourages a critical and circumspect approach to the study of natural science, while developing a suitable foundation for advanced coursework in physics

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Nature, Number and Substance.- The Shape and Motion of the Heavens.- Harmony and Complexity.- Earth at the Center of the World.- The World of Ptolemy.- Measuring the Tropical Year.- Geometrical Tools.- The Sun, the Moon and the Calendar.- From Astronomy to Cartography.- Climates and Continents.- Heliocentrism: Hypothesis or Truth?.- Earth as a Wandering Star.- Re-ordering the Heavenly Spheres.- Celestial Physics.- Broken Spheres.- Kepler's Third Law.- Kepler's First and Second Laws.- Mountains on the Moon.- The Medician Stars.- The Luminosity of Variable Stars.- Galactic Spectra.- Measuring Astronomical Distances.- A New Theory of Gravity.- Euclid, Gauss and Mercury's Orbit.- A Finite Universe with No Boundary.- The Structure of the Universe.- Measuring the Potentially Infinite.- The Birth of the Big Bang.- The Primeval Atom.