Ferguson: Tycho and Kepler

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Kitty Ferguson, Tycho & Kepler : The Unlikely Partnership That Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens. New York : Walker & Company, 2002. xiv + 402 pages.

Kitty Ferguson, a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music, had a successful career as a musician. In recent years, however, she has devoted herself to writing about science and science issues.

This work, in essence a double biography, not only draws vivid portraits of two remarkable figures in the history of science but also deftly explains the importance of the discoveries, inventions, and measurements made by Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler.

Her writing is lively and quite readable. The positive appreciation for her subjects comes through very clearly, making them not just figures from the murky past, but living, breathing personalities worthy of our attention today.

-- Notes by SJB

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