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Contents 6 Figures 8 Abbreviations 10 Introduction 14 Chapter 1 Straight Paths and Evanescent Bodies: The Physics and Dynamics of Celestial Novelties in Kepler’s De stella nova 30 Chapter 2 Of Mites and Men (and Stars): Kepler on the Question of Star Sizes in De stella nova 54 Chapter 3 The Measure of the Universe in De stella nova 76 Chapter 4 Celestial Novelty and the Science of the Stars: Kepler vs. Krabbe on Accuracy and Authority in Early Modern Germany 94 Chapter 5 Stars, Crystals and Courts: Johannes Kepler and Anselmus Boëtius de Boodt 120 Chapter 6 Kepler’s Astrological Play 142 Chapter 7 The Nova of 1600 in Cygnus and the Christianization of the Constellations 158 Chapter 8 Epicurean Astronomy? Atomistic and Corpuscular Stars in Kepler’s Century 194 Chapter 9 The Correspondence of Clavius, Dal Monte, Magini and Other Italian Astronomers on the Nova of 1604 217 Chapter 10 The Scientific Legacy of Kepler’s ‘Stella Nova’ 272 Bibliography 280 Index of Persons 306 Index of Places 310

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