The birth of history and philosophy of science: Kepler's A Defence of Tycho against Ursus with essays on its provenance and significance
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Hardcover. Royal blue cloth, with dark blue title block on spine, blue & illus. dust jacket, 301 pp., diagrams. Johannes Kepler's "A defence of Tycho against Ursus" provides a polemical and highly original account of the history and methodology of astronomy. In the course of..... More