Tycho & Kepler by Kitty Ferguson, Walker/Headline*, $27, ISBN 0802713904 Reviewed by Hazel Muir
TYCHO Brahe and Johannes Kepler could not have led more contrasting lives. While the young Kepler struggled to overcome deprivation and a dysfunctional family, the privileged Brahe was hobnobbing with kings.
Tycho & Kepler is a dual biography that charts the events leading up to their brief and tempestuous relationship in the early 1600s. It’s an insightful interpretation of all the factors – from scientific themes to personality clashes and European religious upheaval – that conspired to unite the unlikely pair, who together revolutionised our picture of the Solar System.…
