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| Read 50 pages, quit. Kepler was an intellectual giant, but a product of his superstitious time. The "Witch" was his mother, an illiterate healer, tortured for witchcraft. Connor is a former Jesuit priest, now an English professor at Kean University in New Jersey. | Read 50 pages, quit. Kepler was an intellectual giant, but a product of his superstitious time. The "Witch" was his mother Katherina, an illiterate herb healer, tortured because of accusations of witchcraft. Connor is a former Jesuit priest, now an English professor at Kean University in New Jersey. |
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| The book is about Kepler's motivations and thought processes, and the complex times he lived in. This isn't a bad book, but others are more important to my goals. | The book focuses on Kepler's motivations and methods, and the complex times he lived in. This isn't a bad book, but others are more important to my goals. |
Kepler's Witch here
James A. Conner, Bvtn 520.92 CON 2014
Read 50 pages, quit. Kepler was an intellectual giant, but a product of his superstitious time. The "Witch" was his mother Katherina, an illiterate herb healer, tortured because of accusations of witchcraft. Connor is a former Jesuit priest, now an English professor at Kean University in New Jersey.
The book focuses on Kepler's motivations and methods, and the complex times he lived in. This isn't a bad book, but others are more important to my goals.