Kepler by Philip Glass
Kepler Opera (youtube in German)
A review from last year (NYtimes)
Johannes Kepler was born on December 27, 1571, he was the first strong supporter of the heliocentric theory of Copernicus and the discoverer of the three laws of planetary motion.
Kepler Nasa homepage
The chart 
drawn by Kepler.
(Recently discovered horoscope calculated by Kepler for an Austrian nobleman named Hans Hannibal Hütter von Hütterhofen, who was born in 1586.)
Arthur Koestler 
and Kepler (previous post – one year ago)
Koestler and Kepler; the perfect fusion.
Elsewhere:
David Foster Wallace 
and Wittgenstein.
Philosophical Sweep
To understand the fiction of David Foster Wallace, it helps to have a little Wittgenstein.
By James Ryerson
David Foster Wallace (previous post)
An interview of DFW (Boston Phoenix)
The Structuralist 
A biography explores Claude Lévi-Strauss’ fascination with what makes cultures tick
In Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory (Penguin Press, $29.95), Patrick Wilcken has written the biography not just of a man, but of an intoxicating intellectual moment.
Claude Lévi-Strauss (previous post)