The Watershed: A Biography of Johannes Kepler

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University Press of America, 1984 - Science - 280 pages

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Chapter One THE YOUNG KEPLER
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Chapter Two THE COSMIC MYSTERY
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About the author (1984)

Arthur Koestler was born on September 5, 1905 in Budapest, Hungary and studied at the University of Vienna. Koestler was a Middle East correspondent for several German newspapers, wrote for the Manchester Guardian, the London Times and the New York Herald Tribune. Koestler wrote Darkness at Noon, which centers on the destructiveness of politics, The Act of Creation, a book about creativity, and The Ghost in the Machine, which bravely attacks behaviorism. Arthur Koestler died in London on March 3, 1983.

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TitleThe Watershed: A Biography of Johannes Kepler
G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
Volume 16 of Science study series
AuthorArthur Koestler
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherUniversity Press of America, 1984
ISBN0819143391, 9780819143396
Length280 pages
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