Kepler's Witch (50 page)

perspicullum
.
See
telescope

Pfalz-Neuberg, Wolfgang Wilhelm von, 203

Philip II, King of Spain, 160–161

Philip, Landgrave of Hesse, 346

Philip the Handsome, 160

Phillip III, King of Spain, 297

philosophy: God and, 41; Kepler on inclination towards, 47; Kepler's position on Copernican universe, 59–68; Kepler's relationship to, 57–59

Physica
(Aristotle), 57

physics, 94

Piazza del Campidoglio, 111

piety, 200–201

pilgrims, 51

Pisorius, Johannes: supervision of Kepler's work, 206; theological debates with Kepler, 198–199

Pius IV, Pope, 112–113

plague, 204–205

Planck, Johannes: house burned, 338; printer for Kepler, 324

planetary motion: Kepler's laws of, 172–173; Kepler's work on, 172–177

planetary orbits:
Astronomia Nova
and, 185–187; Kepler's orbit of Mars theory, 130–131, 152; Kepler's polyhedral hypothesis, 80–84; Kepler's work on, 172–177; motion of moon, 137–138

planets, 64–65.
See also
specific planets Plato: Kepler and harmony and, 329–330, 331; music and, 126; view of human person, 61

Platonic solids, 81–82

Pliny, 186

Pøemysl: founding of Prague and, 146, 147; women and, 193–195

Polheim, Herr von, 240

polygons, 331–332

polyhedral hypothesis: of Kepler, 80–84; Tycho Brahe and, 123–124

Polyxena of Lobkovic, 279

Ponticus, Heracleides, 60

Prague (Austria, now Czech Republic): astronomical clock in,
34
; attack on, 210–211, 223, 224; Catholic army enters, 315–316; charlatans in, 180–181, 183–184; described, 170–172; execution of Protestants in, 316–319; under Ferdinand II's rule, 347–349; founding of, 145–147; Friedrich V as king of Bohemia and, 293–294, 295–296, 297–298; Kepler as Tycho Brahe's assistant in, 152; Kepler in, 133–134; Kepler leaves, 239; Kepler's arrival in, 150–151; Kepler's residences in, 169–170; Kepler's travel to, 147–149; Matthias marches on, 209; museum of, 162–163, 164; plague in, 204–205; Protestant/Catholic tensions in, 207; Rudolf II moves court to, 162–163; Second Defenestration of Prague,
274
, 275–279; Tycho Brahe's invitation to Kepler, 128–129

Prague Castle: Catholic army enters Prague, 315–316; Friedrich and Elizabeth in, 296; Johannes Kepler at, 156, 165–166; Matthias moves into, 211; museum at, 162–163

Praha
(Threshold), 146–147

preachers: archduke Ferdinand and, 114; Lutheran banishment and, 121

predestination: Calvinists rejection of, 213; Kepler's doubts about, 45

pricking, 303–304

priests: called to higher standard, 112; killing/torture of, 110

printing press, 359–360

Prodomus Dissertationum Cosmographicarum, Continens Mysterium Cosmographicum,
the
Forerunner of the Cosmological Essays, Which Contains the Secret of the Universe
(Kepler): Kepler's dedication in, 87–88; publication of, 91–96, 115; search for publisher, 84; Tycho Brahe and, 122, 123–124; Tycho Brahe's data and, 130; writing of, 83

A Profession of Faith and Defense Against Numerous Unjust Rumors Which Arose Because of It
(Kepler), 322

prostitutes, 113

Protestants.
See also
Lutherans: Battle of White Mountain, 311–316; choice of Friedrich V for king of Bohemia, 293–298; Counter-Reformation and, 113–114; Counter-Reformation in Prague and, 157–159; Edict of Restitution and, 361; execution of, 316–319; Ferdinand's Catholicization program, 333–338; forced to convert to Catholicism, 138–140; gone from Prague, 349; Lutheran persecution in Graz, 116–117; Lutherans banished from Graz, 117–118; persecution in Sagan, 359; Protestant faiths banned, 127–128; Rudolf II and, 211–212; Second Defenestration of Prague and, 275–279; tensions with Catholics, 207–211

Protestant Union, 312

Ptolemy, Claudius: epicycles and, 174; geocentric system of, 60;
Harmony
by, 328; Michael Mästlin's book and, 325; model of universe, 64–65, 175, 186

publishing: Kepler involved in, 324–325; Kepler's printing press, 359–360

puzzles of Galileo, 221–222

 

quintessence, 217

R

Ramée, Colonel, 210

rape, 110

Rebstock (student at Tübingen), 57

Reformation: chaos of, 14; Graz and, 76–77; as separate entity, 113

Reformation Commission, 351–352

refraction, 172

Regensburg (Germany): author in, 364; Kepler's family in, 342; Kepler's last days in, 362–364

Regius, Johannes, 77, 78

Reinbold, Jakob: accusations against Katharina Kepler and, 237, 281–285; Katharina Kepler's return to Leonberg and, 280; Katharina's money and, 300; Katharina's release and, 305; petition to duke, 266–267; slander trial and, 269; success of, 232

Reinbold, Ursula: accusations against Katharina Kepler, 236–237, 281–285; Benedict Beutelsbacher's testimony about, 20; character of/trouble with Katharina Kepler, 231–232; Donatus Gültlinger's testimony about, 19; Haller girl incident and, 262; Katharina Kepler's return to Leonberg and, 280; Katharina's release and, 305; Kepler's mother and, 7–8;
Kepler v. Reinbold
, 259–260, 290; Luther Einhorn and, 235–236; slander trial and, 269; summoning of Katharina Kepler and, 237–238

religion.
See also
Catholic church; Counter-Reformation; Lutheran church: Catholic/Lutheran churches, 37–38; Catholic/Protestant tensions, 207–211; as cause for war, 335; in Graz, 76–77; for Kepler at Tübingen, 53–55; Kepler's beliefs, 39–46; Kepler's boyhood and, 36–37; Lutheran church/Catholic church, 24; models of universe and, 62–63, 66–67; piety of Barbara Kepler, 200–201; Second Defenestration of Prague, 275–279; ubiquity doctrine, 44; wars of, 116

religious art, 171

Renaissance, 107, 111

Reuttinger, Susanna.
See also
Kepler, Susanna (wife of Johannes Kepler): Kepler's courtship of, 228, 229, 252–253; marriage to Johannes Kepler, 251, 254

revolts, peasant, 79–80, 337–338

Richelieu, Cardinal, 337, 361

Roffeni, Giovanni Antonio, 251

Rome (Italy): attack on, 108–111; rebuilding of, 111–113

Rosenkrantz, Friedrich, 135, 163

Rozmberk, Peter Vok Ursinus, 155

Rozmberk, Vilém of, 183

Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor: astrology and, 181;
Astronomia Nova
and, 206–207; charlatans and, 180, 183–184; Counter-Reformation in Prague and, 158–159; death of, 211, 239; death of father, 161–162; as emperor, 162; family of, 159–160; interviews with Judah Löw, 166; John Dee and Edward Kelley and, 183, 184; Kepler as imperial mathematician for, 156; Kepler on, 101; Kepler's astrological advice to, 224–225; Kepler's salary and, 197–198; Matthias takes power from, 208–211; Protestants and, 211–212;
Rudolphine Tables
and, 154–155, 205–206; in Spain, 160–161; Tycho Brahe and, 148, 150–151

Rudolphine Tables
(Kepler): Franz Gansneb Tengnagel von Camp and, 130; Kepler not able to work on, 320; Keplers work on, 156; nobility of, 324; presentation to Ferdinand II, 345–349; printer's house burned, 338; publication of, 342–345; rights to publish work of Tycho Brahe, 205–206; Rudolf II and, 154–155; search for publisher for, 341–342; Tycho Brahe and, 124; Tycho Brahe's family and, 156–157

Rüff, Johannes, 299

Ruff, Rudolf, 52

Rumpf, Wolfgang von, 160

 

Sagan, duchy of, 358–361, 362

Santiago de Compostela, 51

Sárka, 195

Saturn: Galileo's observations of, 221; motions of, 174, 186; orbit of, 80–81; sun in sixth house, 32

Sauer, Jonas, 342–343

Scheiner, Father, 215

Schmid, Stephan, 203

Schützenbastian, Barbara, 289

Scotta, Alessandro, 181

Scultetus, Tobias, 189–190

séance, 182, 183

Second Defenestration of Prague: drawing of,
274
; events of, 275–279; Thirty Years' War and, 241

seminarians, 53

Senate of Leonberg, 7–10

Senate of Tübingen, 94–95

sermons, 53–54

Shakespeare, William, 50, 135

Siderius Nuncius, The Starry Messenger
(Galileo), 215–216

Silesia, 358–361, 362

Sistine Chapel, 111

Sixtus V, Pope, 50

slander trial: disappearance of, 290; Einhorn and, 267, 268–269; stopped by Einhorn, 265; suppression of, 259–260

Slavata, Vilém, 277–279 [Scaron]lik, Count, 318

smallpox, 26–27, 223

Smiøick[yacute], Jan, 276

Society of Jesus.
See
Jesuits

The Sojourn Against the Starry Messenger, Peregrinatio Contra Nuncium Sydereum
(Horky), 215

Somnium seu Astronomia Lunari, The Dream, or Astronomy of the Moon
(Kepler), 67–68, 360

Spain: attack on Rome and, 108; Most Fortunate Spanish Armada, 49; Rudolf II in, 160–161

Speidel, Stephan, 90

The Sphere of Sacrobosco
(Holywood), 97

spirit, 61–62

spirit of movement (
anima movens
), 94

spiritual privileges, 112

Stadius, Georg, 71–72

Stahl, Michael, 283, 286–287

Stände
, 117–118, 139

Starhemberg, Elizabeth von, 251

Starhemberg, Erasmus von, 240, 250–251

The Starry Messenger, Siderius Nuncius
(Galileo), 215–216

stars.
See also
astrology; astronomy: Galileo's discoveries and the telescope, 214–222; Kepler's beliefs about, 167; Kepler's book on new star, 185

Sternberg, Adam of, 277–278

Stift
.
See also
Tübingen University: denunciations in, 55; education at, 44; students at, 52

Stiftkirche
, 53–54

Stiftschule
.
See
Lutheran high school, Graz (Austria)

Stone Bridge, 318, 319

The Story of the Satellites of Jupiter, Narratio de Jovis Satellitibus
(Kepler), 220

Stromair, Dr., 354, 355

Stubenvoll, Colonel, 314

Stuttgart consistory: accuse Kepler of heresy, 288; denied petition for Katharina's arrest, 280; Katharina Kepler and, 266; Kepler and Calvinism and, 259; Kepler's theology and, 243–248

Stuttgart (Germany): Kepler in school at, 95; Kepler petitions duke in, 212

sun: Kepler's polyhedral hypothesis and, 94–95; in models of universe, 175; in sixth house, 82

Sweden, 347

 

Talbot, Edward.
See
Kelley, Edward

Tampach, 344, 345

telescope: Galileo's discoveries with, 214–218; Johannes Kepler and, 218–221

temper, 46

Tengnagel von Camp, Franz Gansneb: Kepler and, 130; Tycho Brahe's work and Kepler, 205–206

Tertius Interveniens, das ist Warnung an etliche Theologos, Medicos, und Philosophos, sonderlich D. Philippum F eselium, dass sie bey billicher Verwerffung der Sternguckerischen Aberglauben nicht das Kindt mit dem Badt ausschütten und hiermit ihrer Profession unwissendtzuwider handlen (A Warning to Certain Theologians, Physicians, and Philosophers, Especially D. Philip Feselius, That by Cheaply Condemning the Superstition of the Stargazer, They Not Throw the Baby Out with the Bath, Thus Acting Against Their Own Profession)
(Kepler), 179

tetrahedron, 81

theology: Johannes Pisorius and Kepler, 198–199; Kepler's hypothesis and, 84; Kepler's letter to theology faculty at Tübingen, 69; models of universe and, 66–67

Thirty Years' War: Battle of White Mountain, 311–316; beginning of, 166; Edict of Restitution and, 361; end of first phase, 347; execution of Protestants, 316–319; Ferdinand's Catholicization program and, 333–338; Friedrich V as king of Bohemia and, 293–298; Kepler leaves Linz during, 341; Second Defenestration of Prague and, 275–279

Threshold (
Praha
), 146–147

Thurn, Count Matthias: at Battle of White Mountain, 312, 314, 315; Second Defenestration of Prague and, 276, 277, 278

tides, 187

Tilly, Jean T'Serclaus, Baron of: Albert von Wallenstein and, 336, 337; at Battle of White Mountain, 313, 314, 315

torture: instruments of,
258
; Katharina Kepler and, 304–305; of witches/heretics, 302–304

translations: author on, 6; Kepler's
Astronomia Nova
, 47; from Kepler's eulogy on the death of Tycho Brahe, 141–142; from Kepler's
Harmonice Mundi
, 307–308; Kepler's horoscope, 31–33; from Kepler's journal, 229, 339; letter from Kepler to Herwart von Hohenberg, 102–104; letter from Kepler to Herzog Johann Friedrich von Württemberg, 271–272; letter from Kepler to Johann Matthias Bernegger, 339; letter from Kepler to Michael Mästlin, 85, 101; letter from Kepler to Senate of Leonberg, 7–10; letter from Kepler to theology faculty at Tübingen, 69; letter from Kepler to Tobias Scultetus, 189–190; letter from Kepler to unknown nobleman, 227–229; letter from Luther Einhorn to duke of Württemberg, 255–257; letters from Kepler to Johann Georg Brengger, 167; testimonies against Katharina Kepler, 19–21

transubstantiation, doctrine of, 44

travel: in Kepler's day, 73–74; Kepler's travels, 204–205

Trent, Council of, 112

trial by water, 303

Trinity, 332

truth, 120

Tschernembl, Georg Erasmus von: defense of Kepler, 250–251; defense of Prague and, 315; friendship with Kepler, 240; Kepler and, 79–80

T'Serclaus, Jean.
See
Tilly, Jean T'Serclaus, Baron of Tübingen (Germany): astronomical clock in,
48
; description of, 50–52; law faculty review of Katharina Kepler's case, 18, 301–302; Senate of, 94–95