The Watershed: A Biography of Johannes Kepler - Koestler, Arthur

Clean, tight, unmarked; light age tanning; otherwise very minimal wear; appears unread; A masterful story of the tortured life and towering accomplishments of Johannes Kepler. With his famous "laws of dynamics and gravitation," this man of genius - long neglected by biographers and historians - founded modern astronomy and paved the way for Newtonian physics. Taken from The Sleepwalkers (1959), which was widely acclaimed as Koestler's first writing in the field of science since his days as the science editor of a Berlin newspaper, The Watershed tell the frustrating and exciting story of a man who, despite personal misfortune and the opposition of other scientists, including Galileo, developed the theories of dynamics that have continued as the basis of man's understanding of the solar system and universe.
Near Fine
Mass Market Paperback
Doubleday
1960
New York, NY