The American science writer Kitty Ferguson wrote a fairly good double biography of Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler titled The Nobleman and His Housedog. Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler: the Strange Partnership that Revolutionised Science (review, 2002). Tycho is obviously the noble but Kepler as a housedog? Isn’t that rather insulting? It would be if it wasn’t […]
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