Biografi Kepler yang paling lengkap adalah "Kepler" Max Caspar. Walaupun terdapat sejumlah biografi terbaru, kebanyakan berdasarkan karya Caspar dengan penyelidikan asli yang minimum; banyak maklumat yang dipetik dari Caspar juga terdapat dalam buku karangan Arthur Koestler, Kitty Ferguson, dan James A. Connor. Owen Gingerich The Eye of Heaven menggunakan karya Caspar untuk menempatkan Kepler dalam konteks intelektual astronomi awal-moden yang lebih luas. Banyak kajian kemudian menumpukan pada unsur-unsur tertentu dalam kehidupan dan pekerjaannya. Pandangan matematik, kosmologi, falsafah dan sejarah Kepler telah dianalisis secara meluas dalam buku dan artikel jurnal, walaupun karya astrologinya - dan hubungannya dengan astronomi - masih belum dipelajari.
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Epitome astronomiae copernicanae, 1618
Andersen, Hanne; Peter Barker; and Xiang Chen: The Cognitive Structure of Scientific Revolutions, chapter 6: "The Copernican Revolution." New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006 ISBN 0521855756
Barker, Peter and Bernard R. Goldstein: "Theological Foundations of Kepler's Astronomy". Osiris, Volume 16: Science in Theistic Contexts.University of Chicago Press, 2001, pp 88–113
Caspar, Max: Kepler; transl. and ed. by C. Doris Hellman; with a new introduction and references by Owen Gingerich; bibliographic citations by Owen Gingerich and Alain Segonds. New York: Dover, 1993 ISBN 0486676056
Connor, James A.: Kepler's Witch: An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother. HarperSanFrancisco, 2004 ISBN 0060522550
Ferguson, Kitty: The nobleman and his housedog: Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler: the strange partnership that revolutionized science. London: Review, 2002 ISBN 0747270228 - published in the US as: Tycho & Kepler: the unlikely partnership that forever changed our understanding of the heavens. New York: Walker, 2002 ISBN 0802713904
Gilder, Joshua and Anne-Lee Gilder: Heavenly Intrigue: Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder Behind One of History's Greatest Scientific Discoveries, Doubleday (May 18, 2004), ISBN 0385508441 Reviews [1][2]Diarkibkan 2006-12-24 di Wayback Machine
Gingerich, Owen: The Eye of Heaven: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler. American Institute of Physics, 1993 ISBN 0883188635 (Masters of modern physics; v. 7)
Gingerich, Owen: "Kepler, Johannes" in Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Volume VII. Charles Coulston Gillispie, editor. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1973
Jardine, Nick: "Koyré’s Kepler/Kepler's Koyré," History of Science, Vol. 38 (2000), pp 363–376
Kepler, Johannes, et al.: Great Books of the Western World. Volume 16: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler , Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 1952. (Contains English translations by of Kepler's Epitome, Books IV & V and Harmonices Book 5.)
Kuhn, Thomas S.: The Copernican Revolution: Planetary Astronomy in the Development of Western Thought. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1957. ISBN 0674171039
Lindberg, David C.: "The Genesis of Kepler's Theory of Light: Light Metaphysics from Plotinus to Kepler." Osiris, N.S. 2. University of Chicago Press, 1986, pp 5–42.
Lear, John: Kepler's Dream. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965
North, John: The Fontana History of Astronomy and Cosmology, Fontana Press, 1994. ISBN 0006861776
Pannekoek, Anton: A History of Astronomy, Dover Publications Inc 1989. ISBN 0486659941
Pauli, Wolfgang: Wolfgang Pauli — Writings on physics and philosophy, translated by Robert Schlapp and edited by P. Enz and Karl von Meyenn (Springer Verlag, Berlin, 1994). See section 21, The influence of archetypical ideas on the scientific theories of Kepler, concerning Johannes Kepler and Robert Fludd (1574–1637). ISBN 354056859X
Schneer, Cecil: "Kepler's New Year's Gift of a Snowflake." Isis, Volume 51, No. 4. University of Chicago Press, 1960, pp 531–545.
Shapin, Steven: The Scientific Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. ISBN 0226750205
Stephenson, Bruce: Kepler's physical astronomy. New York: Springer, 1987 ISBN 0-387-96541-6 (Studies in the history of mathematics and physical sciences; 13); reprinted Princeton:Princeton Univ. Pr., 1994 ISBN 0691036527
