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Table of Contents: “…The Science Study Series -- Foreword -- Chapter One: The Young Kepler -- Decline of a Family -- Job -- Orphic Purge -- Appointment -- Astrology -- Chapter Two: The "Cosmic Mystery" -- The Perfect Solids -- Contents of the Mysterium -- Back to Pythagoras -- Chapter Three: Growing Pains -- The Cosmic Cup -- Marriage -- Limbering Up -- Waiting for Tycho -- Chapter Four: Tycho De Brahe -- The Quest for Precision -- The New Star -- Sorcerer's Island -- Exlie -- Prelude to the Meeting -- Chapter Five: Tycho and Kepler -- The Gravity of Fate -- The Inheritor -- Chapter Six: The Giving of the Laws -- Astronomia Nova -- Opening Gambits -- The First Assault -- The Eight Minutes' Arc -- The Wrong Law -- The Second Law -- The First Law -- Some Conclusions -- The Pitfalls of Gravity -- Matter and Mind -- Chapter Seven: Kepler Depressed -- Publishing Difficulties -- Reception of the Astronomia Nova -- Anticlimax -- The Great News -- Chapter Eight: Kepler and Galileo -- A Digression on Mythography -- Youth of Galileo -- The Church and the Copernican System -- Early Querrels -- The Impact of the Telescope -- The Battle of the Satellites -- The Shield Bearer -- The Parting of the Orbits -- Chapter Nine: Chaos and Harmony -- Dioptrice -- Disaster -- Excommunication -- The Witch Trial -- Harmonice Mundi -- The Third Law -- The Ultimate Paradox -- Chapter Ten: Computing a Bride -- Chapter Eleven: The Last Years -- Tabulae Rudolphinae -- The Tension Snaps -- Wallenstein -- Lunar Nightmare -- The End.…”

Table of Contents: “…Kepler's Archetypes and the Astronomia nova; 5. The Aristotelian Kepler.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Scope -- The Order of Things: the quest for world harmony -- Time and Space: historic context and political and economic situation in Middle Europe -- Childhood and Youth (1571-1594): studies and exams in southern Germany; first encounters with Greek mysticism and the work of Copernicus -- Graz -professorship, "Mysterium cosmographicum", correspondence with Galileo -- Prague -- cooperation and discord with Tycho Brahe, Mars data, Tabulae Rudolphinae, "Astronomia Nova", first and second law of planetary movements, various publications, the telescope -- Linz -- torn between Lutheranism, Calvinism and Catholicism, "Harmonices Mundi", third law of planetary movements, logarithms -- Between Ulm and Prague -- completion of the Tabulae Rudolphinae, encounter with Wallenstein, prognostica -- Sagan -- court astrologer; death in Regensburg -- The Order of Things Revisited -- the dismantling of world harmony, deconstruction and back to the unification attempts of modern physics.…”
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