Bearing the Heavens

　　This book was first published in 2007 and is a study of theastronomical culture of sixteenth-century Europe. It examines, inparticular, the ways in which members of the nascent internationalastronomical community shared information, attracted patronage andrespect for their work, and conducted their disputes. Particularattention is paid to the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546–1601),known for his observatory Uraniborg on the island of Hven, hisoperation of a printing press, and his development of a thirdworld-system to rival those of Ptolemy and Copernicus. Adam Mosleyexamines the ways in which Tycho interacted with a Europe-widenetwork of scholars, looking not only at how he constructed hisreputation through print, but also at his use of correspondence andthe role that instruments played as vehicles for data and theories.The book will be of interest to historians of science, historiansof the book, and historians of early modern culture in general.