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List of illustrations ix
Acknowledgements xii
List of abbreviations xiv
Bearing the heavens 1
Coelifer: Atlas as bearer of the heavens 4
Astronomy and kingship: disciplinary history and princely practice 19
Tycho Brahe, Prince of Astronomers 25
Tycho Brahe's astronomical letters 31
Tycho Brahe and the Republic of Letters 33
Epistolary origins: the beginning of the Hven-Kassel exchanges 39
Weddings, merchants, and other hindrances to goodwill 50
Epistolary calibration: instruments, refraction and cosmology at Uraniborg and Kassel 55
Intellectual property, credit, and the exchange of gifts 99
Conclusion 111
Books and the heavens 116
From manuscript to print 119
To please all men of learning and goodwill? 119
A dedicated gift...? 126
...or an astronomical text? 137
Astronomical readers 149
Textual astronomy 149
The astronomical library 166
Readings hostile and authorial 182
A melancholy conclusion 205
Instruments 209
Globi Tychonici 217
Printing and privilege: books, globes, and gifts 243
Moving heaven and earth: models of celestial motion 265
Conclusion 284
Concluding remarks 289
Known and presumed owners of Tycho's works prior to 1602 298
References 307
General index 340
Index of correspondence 352
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reviewed Bearing the Heavens: Tycho Brahe and the Astronomical Community of the Late Sixteenth Century on November 22, 2013 Bearing the Heavens: Tycho Brahe and the Astronomical Community of the Late Sixteenth Century
On Tycho's Island is a history of astronomy book that looks at the amazing astronomer Tycho Brahe and his island observatory. It takes a good look that the years that Tycho operated his observatory Uraniborg, but doesn't look too closely at the rest of Tycho's life. His early years are given brief treatment and his time in exile is only explored up to the time that he landed a position with the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. Largely missing is his time with Johannes Kepler, that is unless you read the biographical entries at the end of the book. The author appended biographies of virtually all of the people mentioned in the book, sometimes with information that was relevant to the life of Tycho, but often not. I would have preferred to have more info about Tycho himself in place of all of these biographical entries but I understand the author's rationale for including it.
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