Dimensions
134 x 196 x 26mm
The Strange Partnership that Revolutionised Astronomy.
When Newton famously said, "I have stood on the shoulders of giants", two of the greatest of those giants where Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe. The tale of these extraordinary men, and the enormous contribution they made to astronomy, is one of the strangest stories in scientific history.
Kepler was a poor, devout teacher with a genius for mathematics. Brahe was an arrogant, extravagant aristocrat who possessed the best astronomical observations of the time. Both pursued separate theories which seem bizarre to modern minds but their fateful meeting in Prague in 1600 was to change the future of science.
Set in one of the most turbulent and colourful eras in European history, when medieval gave way to modern, 'The Nobleman And His Housedog' is a brilliant, highly original double biography of these two remarkable men.
