His mother was accused of poisoning by Ursula Reinhold after a failed abortion. That trial is depicted in two operas: Tim Watts' opera depicts his mother sympathetically, while Hindemith's depicts his mother as a deranged madwoman. His novel Somnium depicts what the Earth might look like from the moon and is considered an early work of Science Fiction. He also composed the Rudolphine Tables of planetary tables named in honor of his patron Rudolf II. By positing two foci, his elipses better explained orbits than the Copernican model. For 10 points, name this student of Tycho Brahe and formulator of the laws of planetary motion.
His mother was accused of poisoning by Ursula Reinhold after a failed abortion. That trial is depicted in two operas: Tim Watts' opera depicts his mother sympathetically, while Hindemith's depicts his mother as a deranged madwoman. His novel Somnium depicts what the Earth might look like from the moon and is considered an early work of Science Fiction. He also composed the Rudolphine Tables of planetary tables named in honor of his patron Rudolf II. By positing two foci, his elipses better explained orbits than the Copernican model. For 10 points, name this student of Tycho Brahe and formulator of the laws of planetary motion.
His mother was accused of poisoning by Ursula Reinhold after a failed abortion.