Kepler (2004)

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Únor 23, 2012

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Osoby a obsazení: Johannes Kepler (Benedict Cumberbatch), Tycho Brahe (Alun Armstrong) a další.

Nastudovalo BBC v roce 2004. Premiéra 11. 8. 2004 (BBC Radio 4). K poslechu zde

Pozn.: An exploration of the clash between two of the 17th century’s leading astronomers – the assured, prickly and self-mocking Johannes Kepler, and the aristocratic, overbearing and secretly insecure Danish nobleman, Tycho Brahe.

Leaving Graz because of religious tensions, Kepler accepts an invitation from Brahe to work at his new observatory at Benátky in Bohemia. Kepler’s wife is offended by their poor accommodations and treatment, while Kepler is frustrated by Brahe’s refusal to share all his data. When Kepler finds fault with Brahe’s theory of planetary motion, Brahe demands a written apology.

Kepler bets Brahe 100 florins that he can work out the orbit of Mars in a week, and while he fails to do so in the allotted time, Kepler eventually realises that Mars and the other planets travel in ellipses – rather than circles as previously believed – with the sun at the centre. Brahe sadly observes that his own system will be forgotten in the wake of this discovery.

Brahe suffers a fatal bladder infection, brought on because he thought it would be impolite to leave his host’s dinner table to relieve himself. Before he dies, he entrusts Kepler with all his research to finish the star charts commissioned by the Emperor.