Dusseldorf/Chapters/9-kepler.rtf, cr 26 nov 2004

9. Kepler, 1600 CE

John Dee (1527-1608) the last emanationist
William Gilbert (1544-1603) magnetism, the first field
Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) the cosmos as an infinite plenum
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) universal gravitation, the second field

Refs

Gilbert, William, On the Magnet, New York: Basic Books, 1958.
WET website, http://www.ralph-abraham.org/ficino