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Astronomer and the Witch Johannes Kepler's Fight for his Mother

Rublack Ulinka
Innbundet / 2015 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9780198736776
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
744 gr
Høyde
242 mm
Bredde
173 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
392

Forfatter
Rublack Ulinka

Biografisk notat

Ulinka Rublack is Professor at the University of Cambridge and has published widely on early modern European history as well as approaches to history. She has edited, most recently, the Oxford Concise Companion to History (2011), and her Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations is forthcoming. Her monographs include Reformation Europe (2005), The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany (1999), and Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe (2010), which won the Roland H. Bainton Prize.

Astronomer and the Witch Johannes Kepler's Fight for his Mother

Rublack Ulinka
Innbundet / 2015 / Engelsk
Rublack Ulinka
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A breath-taking account of a brave family who boldly fought for justice.

Early Science and Medicine

Compelling.

Hannah Murphy, Isis Review

Ulinka Rublack shows wonderful sensitivity about mothers, old age, and female struggles, as she unpicks the trial of Johannes Kepler's mother for witchcraft.

Marina Warner, Book of the Year 2015, Observer

Se alle

An enthralling book.

Jennifer Rampling, Nature

Excellent ... meticulously researched and wonderfully readable.

John Banville, Literary Review

Ulinka Rublack's book about Katharina Kepler, and her sons extraordinary defence of her, is fine-grained microhistory, but it's also revealing of the larger ideas that framed their world ... Superstition and science, rather than being successive stages in the ascent of reason, co-existed so closely and dynamically that the definition of neither is reliable. The Astronomer and the Witch illustrates this complexity, and its transitions, with agility and sensitivity.

Malcolm Gaskill, London Review of Books

[an] important new book ... [which] offers an extended meditation on family relationships, and in particular that indelible but intangible bond between a mother and her son.

Jan Machielsen, Times Literary Supplement

[A] superb study ... The author wanted her book to provide a "better understanding of individuals, but also of families, a community, and an age". It succeeds triumphantly.

Jonathan Wright, Catholic Herald

Rublack tells [this] story with a novelist's panache. Even if you know what happened, it's a compelling book. She sketches the vivid details that make the time, place and characters come to life ... The Tale of the Witch and the Mathematician - unmissable.

Mark Greener, Fortean Times

In 1615, an illiterate widow is accused of witchcraft in a German town. Her son, the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler, conducts her defence in a trial that drags on for six years. In this enthralling book, Ulinka Rublack reconstructs the struggle over Katharina Kepler's fate. We enter a small-town world of rivalries, friendships, deference, power and vulnerability, a world in which religious faith, scientific knowledge and folk belief are dangerously intertwined. Vividly drawn and subtly observed, The Astronomer and the Witch opens a window onto the inner life of a past that is strange and remote, but also unsettlingly familiar.

Christopher Clark

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of Copernicus´ s sun-centred universe, he famously discovered that planets move in ellipses, and defined the three laws of planetary motion. Perhaps less well known is that in 1615, when Kepler was at the height of his career, his widowed mother Katharina was accused of witchcraft. The proceedings led to a criminal trial that lasted six years, with Kepler conducting his mother's defence. In The Astronomer and the Witch, Ulinka Rublack pieces together the tale of this extraordinary episode in Kepler's life, one which takes us to the heart of his changing world. First and foremost an intense family drama, the story brings to life the world of a small Lutheran community in the centre of Europe at a time of deep religious and political turmoil - a century after the Reformation, and on the threshold of the Thirty Years' War. Kepler's defence of his mother also offers us a fascinating glimpse into the great astronomer's world view, on the cusp between Reformation and scientific revolution. While advancing rational explanations for the phenomena which his mother's accusers attributed to witchcraft, Kepler nevertheless did not call into question the existence of magic and witches. On the contrary, he clearly believed in them. And, as the story unfolds, it appears that there were moments when even Katharina's children struggled to understand what their mother had done...
Les mer
The extraordinary tale of Johannes Kepler, one of the most admired astronomers of all time, and the six long years spent defending his mother from her neighbours' accusations of witchcraft. A story which takes us to the heart of Kepler's changing world.
Les mer
Timeline of Johannes Kepler's LIfe ; 1. Introduction ; 2. A Lutheran Court ; 3. The Year of the Witches ; 4. Kepler's Strategies ; 5. A Family Responds ; 6. Movements of the Soul ; 7. The Trial Continues ; 8. Other Witches ; 9. Katherina's Imprisonment ; 10. Kepler's Return ; 11. The Defence ; 12. The Trial Ends ; 13. Kepler's Dream ; Epilogue ; Notes ; Further Reading ; Index
Les mer
`This book takes you right to the heart of life in the seventeenth century, with all its sense of intellectual possibility, its dreams and its fears. Rublack tells a shocking story. How was it possible for the mother of the famous scientist Kepler to be accused of witchcraft, and why did she come to trial? In gripping prose, Rublack shows how the case destroyed those involved in it. She makes us understand how witchcraft could be credible and why people feared it so much. She makes us understand the psychological wellsprings of Keplers work. And she presents a whole new account of scientific thinking and its relationship to natural knowledge at the dawn of a new era. The most compelling book I have read for a long time.' Professor Lyndal Roper, University of Oxford `... an enthralling, many-sided book... at once a vivid introduction to a fascinating social and cultural world; a profound analysis of a witch trial... and a deep study of one of the greatest scientists who ever lived...' Professor Anthony Grafton, Princeton University `Gripping and inspiring, this tale of the six-year battle to clear Katharina Kepler of the charge of witchcraft yields striking new insights into the personalities and families involved, their communities and their culture... The past, with its hopes and fears, comes wonderfully to life in this scholarly masterwork.' Professor Nicholas Jardine, University of Cambridge
Les mer
Shortlisted for the 2017 Dingle Prize
An extraordinary and moving account of the astronomer Johannes Kepler's long struggle to protect his mother from execution as a witch An intense family drama that takes us to the heart of Kepler's changing world Brings to life a small Lutheran community in the centre of Europe at the height of the witch-craze Offers a fascinating glimpse into Kepler's world view, on the cusp between Reformation and scientific revolution
Les mer
Ulinka Rublack is Professor at the University of Cambridge and has published widely on early modern European history as well as approaches to history. She has edited, most recently, the Oxford Concise Companion to History (2011), and her Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations is forthcoming. Her monographs include Reformation Europe (2005), The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany (1999), and Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe (2010), which won the Roland H. Bainton Prize.
Les mer
An extraordinary and moving account of the astronomer Johannes Kepler's long struggle to protect his mother from execution as a witch An intense family drama that takes us to the heart of Kepler's changing world Brings to life a small Lutheran community in the centre of Europe at the height of the witch-craze Offers a fascinating glimpse into Kepler's world view, on the cusp between Reformation and scientific revolution
Les mer

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A breath-taking account of a brave family who boldly fought for justice.

Early Science and Medicine

Compelling.

Hannah Murphy, Isis Review

Ulinka Rublack shows wonderful sensitivity about mothers, old age, and female struggles, as she unpicks the trial of Johannes Kepler's mother for witchcraft.

Marina Warner, Book of the Year 2015, Observer

Se alle

An enthralling book.

Jennifer Rampling, Nature

Excellent ... meticulously researched and wonderfully readable.

John Banville, Literary Review

Ulinka Rublack's book about Katharina Kepler, and her sons extraordinary defence of her, is fine-grained microhistory, but it's also revealing of the larger ideas that framed their world ... Superstition and science, rather than being successive stages in the ascent of reason, co-existed so closely and dynamically that the definition of neither is reliable. The Astronomer and the Witch illustrates this complexity, and its transitions, with agility and sensitivity.

Malcolm Gaskill, London Review of Books

[an] important new book ... [which] offers an extended meditation on family relationships, and in particular that indelible but intangible bond between a mother and her son.

Jan Machielsen, Times Literary Supplement

[A] superb study ... The author wanted her book to provide a "better understanding of individuals, but also of families, a community, and an age". It succeeds triumphantly.

Jonathan Wright, Catholic Herald

Rublack tells [this] story with a novelist's panache. Even if you know what happened, it's a compelling book. She sketches the vivid details that make the time, place and characters come to life ... The Tale of the Witch and the Mathematician - unmissable.

Mark Greener, Fortean Times

In 1615, an illiterate widow is accused of witchcraft in a German town. Her son, the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler, conducts her defence in a trial that drags on for six years. In this enthralling book, Ulinka Rublack reconstructs the struggle over Katharina Kepler's fate. We enter a small-town world of rivalries, friendships, deference, power and vulnerability, a world in which religious faith, scientific knowledge and folk belief are dangerously intertwined. Vividly drawn and subtly observed, The Astronomer and the Witch opens a window onto the inner life of a past that is strange and remote, but also unsettlingly familiar.

Christopher Clark

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) was one of the most admired astronomers who ever lived and a key figure in the scientific revolution. A defender of Copernicus´ s sun-centred universe, he famously discovered that planets move in ellipses, and defined the three laws of planetary motion. Perhaps less well known is that in 1615, when Kepler was at the height of his career, his widowed mother Katharina was accused of witchcraft. The proceedings led to a criminal trial that lasted six years, with Kepler conducting his mother's defence. In The Astronomer and the Witch, Ulinka Rublack pieces together the tale of this extraordinary episode in Kepler's life, one which takes us to the heart of his changing world. First and foremost an intense family drama, the story brings to life the world of a small Lutheran community in the centre of Europe at a time of deep religious and political turmoil - a century after the Reformation, and on the threshold of the Thirty Years' War. Kepler's defence of his mother also offers us a fascinating glimpse into the great astronomer's world view, on the cusp between Reformation and scientific revolution. While advancing rational explanations for the phenomena which his mother's accusers attributed to witchcraft, Kepler nevertheless did not call into question the existence of magic and witches. On the contrary, he clearly believed in them. And, as the story unfolds, it appears that there were moments when even Katharina's children struggled to understand what their mother had done...
Les mer
The extraordinary tale of Johannes Kepler, one of the most admired astronomers of all time, and the six long years spent defending his mother from her neighbours' accusations of witchcraft. A story which takes us to the heart of Kepler's changing world.
Les mer
Timeline of Johannes Kepler's LIfe ; 1. Introduction ; 2. A Lutheran Court ; 3. The Year of the Witches ; 4. Kepler's Strategies ; 5. A Family Responds ; 6. Movements of the Soul ; 7. The Trial Continues ; 8. Other Witches ; 9. Katherina's Imprisonment ; 10. Kepler's Return ; 11. The Defence ; 12. The Trial Ends ; 13. Kepler's Dream ; Epilogue ; Notes ; Further Reading ; Index
Les mer
`This book takes you right to the heart of life in the seventeenth century, with all its sense of intellectual possibility, its dreams and its fears. Rublack tells a shocking story. How was it possible for the mother of the famous scientist Kepler to be accused of witchcraft, and why did she come to trial? In gripping prose, Rublack shows how the case destroyed those involved in it. She makes us understand how witchcraft could be credible and why people feared it so much. She makes us understand the psychological wellsprings of Keplers work. And she presents a whole new account of scientific thinking and its relationship to natural knowledge at the dawn of a new era. The most compelling book I have read for a long time.' Professor Lyndal Roper, University of Oxford `... an enthralling, many-sided book... at once a vivid introduction to a fascinating social and cultural world; a profound analysis of a witch trial... and a deep study of one of the greatest scientists who ever lived...' Professor Anthony Grafton, Princeton University `Gripping and inspiring, this tale of the six-year battle to clear Katharina Kepler of the charge of witchcraft yields striking new insights into the personalities and families involved, their communities and their culture... The past, with its hopes and fears, comes wonderfully to life in this scholarly masterwork.' Professor Nicholas Jardine, University of Cambridge
Les mer
Shortlisted for the 2017 Dingle Prize
An extraordinary and moving account of the astronomer Johannes Kepler's long struggle to protect his mother from execution as a witch An intense family drama that takes us to the heart of Kepler's changing world Brings to life a small Lutheran community in the centre of Europe at the height of the witch-craze Offers a fascinating glimpse into Kepler's world view, on the cusp between Reformation and scientific revolution
Les mer
Ulinka Rublack is Professor at the University of Cambridge and has published widely on early modern European history as well as approaches to history. She has edited, most recently, the Oxford Concise Companion to History (2011), and her Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations is forthcoming. Her monographs include Reformation Europe (2005), The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany (1999), and Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe (2010), which won the Roland H. Bainton Prize.
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An extraordinary and moving account of the astronomer Johannes Kepler's long struggle to protect his mother from execution as a witch An intense family drama that takes us to the heart of Kepler's changing world Brings to life a small Lutheran community in the centre of Europe at the height of the witch-craze Offers a fascinating glimpse into Kepler's world view, on the cusp between Reformation and scientific revolution
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198736776
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Oxford University Press
Vekt
744 gr
Høyde
242 mm
Bredde
173 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
392

Forfatter
Rublack Ulinka

Biografisk notat

Ulinka Rublack is Professor at the University of Cambridge and has published widely on early modern European history as well as approaches to history. She has edited, most recently, the Oxford Concise Companion to History (2011), and her Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations is forthcoming. Her monographs include Reformation Europe (2005), The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany (1999), and Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe (2010), which won the Roland H. Bainton Prize.

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