Johannes Kepler’s Latin essay of 1611, ‘On the Six-Cornered Snowflake’, is here presented in an English translation by Colin Hardie. The text is accompanied by essays from Brian J. Mason…

Kepler hat bei seinen Versuchen zur Planetenbewegung als erster die vollkommene Kreisbewegung verworfen. Erst bei der Betrachtung elliptischer Bahnen fand er die lange gesuchte UEbereinstimmung mit Tycho Brahes Messwerten. Dieses…

A brief dissertation looking towards a cosmotheory together with a physical prognosis for the year 1602. Translated from the Latin of Johann Kepler, the founder with Copernicus of modern astronomy…

Second edition, completely revised, of the only English translation of Kepler’s 1609 masterpiece. A work of astonishing originality, Astronomia Nova stands, with Copernicus’s De Revolutionibus and Newton’s Principia as one…

This seminal work by the German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler lays out the principles of his revolutionary approach to scientific inquiry. Drawing on his extensive knowledge of mathematics, physics…

Based on personal testimony, this book was written to show what the term domestic violence really means to the thousands of women, children - and sometimes men - who suffer…

In this book we describe the evolution of Classical Mechanics from Newton’s laws via Lagrange’s and Hamilton’s theories with strong emphasis on integrability versus chaotic behavior.

The economic impact and cost of shadow economies have become a pronounced international problem. This second edition uses new data from seventy-six developing, transition and OECD countries to give an…