Authors: Kitty Ferguson
and Scripture
Sun-centered
support for
Copernican revolution
Copernican tables
see also
Prutenic Tables
Copernicus
TB heir to
Earth orbit
mathematical theories of
planetary distances
Cosmology
Aristotelian
Cosmos
Counter–Reformation
Craig, John
Cross staff/radius
Crystallography
Cube
Cylinder
Dançey, Charles de
Dante
Deferent(s)
Denmark
TB leaving
TB position in
courtship and marriage customs
government
law codes
religious conflict
wars
Descartes, René
Distance, inverse of
Distance rule
Diurnal parallax
Dybvad, Jørgen
Earth
axis of rotation
behaves like planet
center
controversy regarding movement of
decaying nature of
influence of planetary movements on
moving
orbit
“planet-moving force,”
rotation of
stability of
unmoving
Eccentric/eccentricity
Eccentric orbit(s)
center of
Mars
see also
Planetary eccentricities
Eclipse of Moon
Eclipses
lunar
solar
Ecliptic
Einhorn, Lutherus
Ellipse
Elliptical orbit
Mars
Ephemerides
Ephemeris
Epicycle
Equant
Euclid
Eye(s), function of
Fabricius, David
Ferdinand II, Archduke
Fiefs
offered to TB
transfer of
Flemløse, Peter Jacobsen
Frankfurt Book Fair
Frederick, King (Frederick II)
TB finding experts for
TB relations with
TB’s report on comet to
death of
marriage
offered fiefs to TB
and religious conflict
support for TB’s work
support for scientific research
Free will
Friis, Christian
Frobenius, Georg Ludwig
Galileo
clash with pope
discovery of planets
telescope
Gassendi, Pierre
Gemperle, Tobias
Geometry
and geometric harmony
and musical harmony
Globe
Gnesio-Lutherans
God
creation of universe
designing universe
geometric logic of
logic and harmony of creation
reasoning of
Gravity
Graz, Styria
JK in
JK required to leave
Kepler family in
Protestants expelled from
religious situation in
threat to JK in
Great Conjunctions of Jupiter and Saturn
Hagecius, Thaddeus
Hainzel, Paul
Half-sextant
Hapsburg family
Harmonic law
Harmonic ratios
Harmonic theory
Harmony
Heavenly movement
Ptolemy’s model of
Heliocentric longitudes
Hemmingsen, Niels
Herrevad Abbey
Hexagon
Hipparchus
Hoffmann, Johann Friedrich
Holy Roman Emperor
Holy Roman Empire
Horizon
Horoscopes
by TB
by JK
Hven
Brahe children could not inherit
TB left
center point
changes
Christian at
instruments at
new charter for
map of
peasants
visitors to
Inertia
Instruments
Instruments (TB)
at Benatky
Copenhagen observatory
JK responsibility for
metal
more precise and powerful
moving
moving to Benatky
moving to Copenhagen
moving to Prague
payment for
at Stjerneborg
at Uraniborg
Integral calculus
Inverse square law
Inverse square law of light
Jesensky, Jan
Jørgensdatter, Kirsten
and death of TB
status
Jupiter
conjunction with Saturn
moons of
Kepler, Barbara Müller
bad health and depression
death of
inheritance
left Graz
married JK
Kepler, Christoph
Kepler, Heinrich (brother of JK)
Kepler, Heinrich (father of JK)
Kepler, Heinrich (son of JK)
Kepler, Johannes
agreement with Tengnagel
allowed to return to Graz
astronomy
book by, sent to TB
books
and TB
on TB
career
children
children: deaths
contractual arrangement with TB
death of
and death of TB
district mathematician
early life
education
financial
situation
and Galileo
imperial mathematician
letter praising Ursus
library
marriage arrangements
marriage to B. Müller
marriage to S. Reuttinger
and mother’s witchcraft trial
personal characteristics
portrait
problem of Mars
provincial mathematician
questions asked by
required to leave Graz
responsibility for completion of unfinished
work of TB
status
teaching in Graz
threat to, in Graz
worldview
Kepler, Katharina
accused of witchcraft
Kepler, Margarethe (later Binder)
Kepler, Sebald
Kepler, Susanna Reuttinger
Kepler family
Kepler’s Star
Knieper, Hans
Knutstorp
Knutstorps Borg (castle)
Lange, Erik
Laubenwolf, George
Liddell, Duncan
Light
inverse square
law of
Light rays
Linz
religious conflict in
Logarithms
Longomontanus
and JK contract
left TB
moving instruments
and problem of Mars
work on lunar theory
work on Mars observations
Lunar eclipses
Lunar theory (TB)
Luther, Martin
Lutheranism/Lutherans
action against,
division in
tension with Catholics
Magdeburg
Magnetic
hypothesis
Magnetism
Mars
conjunction with Moon
distance from Earth
oppositions
orbit
orbit: JK work on
parallax
see also
Mars observations; “Problem of Mars”
Mars observations
JK and
JK surrendered to Tengnagel
JK use of/work on
and mathematical theory
Mästlin, Michael
appeals to
JK visited
and JK’s book
optics problem
Mathematical harmonies
Mathematics
of Copernicus
different from physics
JK
Mathematical/geometric logic
observations and
Matthias (emperor)
Melanchthon, Philipp
Mercury
orbit
Milky Way
Moon
conjunction with Mars
motion of
orbit
parallax shift
and tides
Müller, Regina
death of
Mural quadrant
Music
Musical
intervals
Musical ratios
Napier, John
Nature
harmonic ratios in
pattern, logic, harmony in
Newton, Sir Isaac
Nicholas of Cusa, Cardinal
North celestial pole
North Pole
Nova
TB book about
parallax shift
positions of
Observation, and theory
Observations (TB)
astronomical tables based on
comet
in Copernican revolution
from
Hven
JK access to
JK took charge of
JK use of/work on
records of
see also
Mars observations
Odometer
Opposition
Mars
Optics
Osiander, Andreas
Oval
Ovid
Oxe, Peder
Oxe family
Palladio, Andrea
Parallax shift
comet
Mars
Parsberg, Manderup
Peace of Augsburg
Pedersen, Rasmus
Pentagon
Perfect solids
Perihelion
Philippists
Physical reasons/explanations
for eccentricities
need for
search for
Physics
mathematics different from
Pinhole images
Plague
Planck, Johannes
Planet-moving force
Earth
Sun
Planetary chord
Planetary eccentricities
Planetary models
Planetary motion/movement
cause of
effects on Earth
explanations for
first law of
in harmonic theory
laws of
mathematical/geometrical
models demonstrating
physical explanation of
prediction of
second law of
third law of
Planetary orbits
distances between
using Platonic solids
Planetary periods
Planetary positions
Planetary theory
Planets
TB work on
discovery of new
distances from Sun
retrograde
movement
speeds
spheres
variation in speed of
Plato
Platonic/Pythagorean solids
related to planetary chord
Pluto
Pole Star
Polygons
Polyhedral theory
TB on
failures of
Polyhedrons
Prague
battles in
TB in
JK in
Pratensis, Johannes
death of
Precision, TB standard of
“Problem of Mars,”
Protestantism/Protestants
action against
conflict with Catholics
division in
expelled from Graz
revolution in Bohemia
TB adjustments to
Prutenic Tables
Ptolemaic astronomy
breakaway from
devices of
Ptolemaic model/system
compromise with Copernican
difference from Copernican
planetary movement in
Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus)
TB heir to
Earth–centered model
eccentric planetary orbits
equant
scheme of cosmos
variation in speed of planets
“Puffy-cheeked” orbit
Pythagoreans
Quadrans maximus
(great quadrant)
Quadrans mediocris orichalcicus azimuthalis
Quadrant(s)
azimuth
brass and gold
copy of
great
procedure for using
revolving wood
steel
see also
Mural quadrant
Ramus, Petrus
Rantzau, Heinrich
Reformation
Refraction
Regensburg
Reinbold, Ursula
Reinhold, Erasmus
Religion
TB
JK and
Religious conflict
in Graz
Retrograde movement
Rigsraad
Roskilde Cathedral
Rostock
Rothmann, Christoph
Rudolfine Tables
Rudolfine Tables
frontispiece
Rudolph, Emperor (Rudolph of Hapsburg)
abdication
astrology
death of
end of reign of
failure to keep word
interest in learning
and JK
JK astrological advice to
mental collapse
patronage for TB
support for TB
TB dedicated book to
Catholicism
St. Ibb’s Church
Sascerides, Gellius
Saturn
conjunctions with Jupiter
orbit
Scavenius, Nicolaus
Schultz, Bartholomew
Science
Scientific
method
Sextant
Solar eclipse
Solar refraction table
Solar system
dimensions of
model of
Sophie, Queen
South celestial pole
South Pole
Square
Star catalogs
Star positions
catalog of
Stars
cataloging
distance of
effect on weather
influence but do not determine human life
Steenwinkel, Hans von
Stellar parallax
lack
of
Stift
Stjerneborg (Star Castle)
archaeological site
bid for immortality
instruments
symbolism of
Styria
Sun
center
distance of planets from
force in, moving planets
motion of
orbit
orbiting Earth
parallax
partial eclipse
role of
rotation of
and seasons
source of all change and motion
“true,”
Sun-centered
astronomy
Supernovae
Symmetry
Telescope
JK defense of
Tengnagel, Franz
agreement with JK
completed TB’s work
Elisabeth Brahe’s marriage to
conflict with JK over TB works
and Mars observations
status
Theology
Thirty Years War
Transits
Transversal points
Triangle
Triangulation
Trigonometry
Trigons
Tübingen
Tuna (village)
Tychonic system
breaking code of
and Copernican system
correctness of
inventor of
justification of
JK and
plagiarized
planetary motion in
Sun orbiting in
validation of
Tychonides
Type I supernova
Ulrich of Mecklenburg, Duke