“Ferguson’s writing style is lucid and imaginative. She has a wonderful ability to explain her topic and its significance but also to render the historical background in such a way that the participants do not seem to be either incredibly farsighted prophets or quaint characters fumbling for explanations.”
“Ferguson continues to wield her gift as a popular science writer in this double biography. “Tycho and Kepler’s scientific achievements were nothing less than paradigm altering, and Ferguson’s meticulous blend of biography, history, and science anchors their cosmic discoveries within a vital social context.” By putting together Brahe as Smaug the dragon sitting on a fabulous golden hoard with Kepler as Bilbo Baggins who wrests the treasure from him, and expounding the science with conscientious clarity, Kitty Ferguson has written an absorbing non-fiction fable that simultaneously stimulates our imagination and satisfies our scientific curiosity.” She is good on the profound differences in character between the rich, lordly astronomer Brahe and the poverty-stricken, middle-class mathematician Johannes Kepler, the differences between Brahe’s observational and technical obsessions and Kepler’s modest, seemingly simple-minded, genius that nagged at questions we take for granted now but which outraged his contemporaries. Kitty Ferguson doesn’t short-change her readers on the wonder-working details of 16th century European science and astronomy, which was then still close to alchemy and astrology. His fantastical castle and astronomical research center of Uraniborg (a ‘whimsical bauble’) on a Danish island is the stuff of legend. “Novelists know that Tycho Brahe’s nose was lopped off in a brawl and that he thereafter wore an artificial nose of gold and silver. “Tycho and Kepler shows beautifully how the obsessions of the pragmatic, imperious Brahe meshed perfectly with the obsessions of the idealistic, pensive Kepler.” Tycho and Kepler is a captivating story drawn from the greatest subject known to humankind – the very universe itself.” The scientific concepts are clearly delineated, and the reader will deeply appreciate the many enlightening diagrams and photographs. Richard Newsome, Book Critic - 612 ABC Brisbane RadioĬlick here to hear Kitty Ferguson’s TYCHO & KEPLER reviewed and it’s all one hundred percent true, the most fascinating read about two incredibly interesting people!”
it has love, sword fighting, murder, deception, betrayal, trust gone wrong, incredible riches, amazing poverty, reaching for the stars and abject failure, all wrapped in this historical book.
“Kitty Ferguson has written a book that has romance. Occasional updates on new books, lecture events,
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