by Jean-Pierre Luminet · LGF/Le Livre de Poche · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782253126461
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«La Discorde céleste» is the historical novel by Jean-Pierre Luminet, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (596 pages, in French).
The historical novel pits two astronomers against each other: Tycho Brahe, a Danish aristocrat who owned the greatest observatory of his time, and Johannes Kepler, a German mathematician of humble origin. Their relationship revolves around Brahe's treasure trove of celestial data, which Kepler needs to explain the movement of the planets.
Second installment of the series «Les Bâtisseurs du ciel», after «Le Secret de Copernic»; 2009 edition.
For readers of historical fiction with an interest in astronomy and the figures who changed our view of the universe.
Jean-Pierre Luminet is a French astrophysicist, specializing in black holes and cosmology. He is an emeritus research director at the CNRS. Luminet is a member of the Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille (LAM) and Laboratoire Univers et Théories (LUTH) of the Paris-Meudon Observatory, and is a visiting scientist at the Centre de Physique Théorique (CPT) in Marseilles. He is also a writer and poet.
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