...Oren Harman Rublack Ulinka , The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for His Mother . ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2015 ), 359 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

..., but also, and more radically, the security of a traditional sense of who and where he was. His infinite universe terrified a thinker as unconventional as Johannes Kepler, and still more it terrified the Inquisition. For Bruno himself, the excitement of this infinitely expanded vision of the cosmos was...

... cosmic independentand fiercely optimistic, underlying, Kepler’s own understand better Rublackhelps us Ulinka politics, and medicine, gender, piety, truth, community, jurisdiction, ofjustice, values nate contemporary illumi to defense Kepler’s courtroom spirited Marshaling everything...

... before Newton, the twinkling of stars before Kepler, and had anticipated the ideas of Bacon, Galileo, Pascal, and Huygens. By the turn of the century, a few specialists in the relevant fields had heard enough of Leonardo’s greatness (which reduced those who...

... night the Infinite speaks to him: “You think Kepler and Galileo were great beacons?—they were nothing but old maids. It was their knitting, the idea that the earth revolved around the sun.” This chimera 295 had its day: now “everything revolves around everything.” “Like islands from the mud...