Kepler
Subtitle: a novel
By: by John Banville
Publisher: Secker & Warburg
Published: 1981
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Kepler, Johannes, -- 1571-1630 -- Fiction
Description: Johannes Kepler, born in 1571 in south Germany, was one of the world's greatest mathematicians and astronomers. The author of this book uses this history as a background to his novel, writing a work of historical fiction that is rooted in poverty, squalor and the tyrannical power of emperors.