Joshua Gilder: Heavenly Intrigue

Cover: 9781400031764 | Heavenly Intrigue | Joshua Gilder (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | 304 S.

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Heavenly Intrigue is the fascinating, true account of the seventeenth-century collaboration between Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe that revolutionized our understanding of the universe-and ended in [...] of history's greatest geniuses, Kepler laid the foundations of modern physics with his revolutionary laws of planetary motion. But his beautiful mind was beset by demons. Born into poverty and abuse, half-blinded by smallpox, he festered with rage, resentment, and a longing for worldly fame. Brahe, his mentor, was a flamboyant aristocrat who had spent forty years mapping the heavens with unprecedented accuracy-but he refused to share his data with Kepler. With Brahe's untimely death in Prague in 1601, rumors flew across Europe that he had been murdered. But it took twentieth-century forensics to uncover the poison in his remains, and the detective work of Joshua and Anne-Lee Gilder to identify the prime suspect-the ambitious, envy-ridden Kepler himself. A fast-paced, true-life account that reads like a thriller, Heavenly Intrigue is a remarkable feat of historical re-creation.

Über den Autor

Joshua Gilder has worked as a magazine editor, White House speechwriter, and State Department official and is the author, most recently, of the novel Ghost Image. Anne-Lee Gilder was formerly a producer and investigative reporter for German television. They live outside Washington, D.C.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2005
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	304 S.
ISBN-13:	9781400031764
ISBN-10:	1400031761
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Gilder, Joshua Gilder, Anne-Lee
Hersteller:	Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestr. 122a, D-22083 Hamburg, vertrieb@petersen-buchimport.com
Maße:	203 x 132 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Joshua Gilder (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	14.06.2005
Gewicht:	0,378 kg