Tycho Brahe
1546-1601
Danish Astronomer
Tycho Brahe is considered the greatest observational astronomer of the pre-telescopic era. His observations of the 1572 nova and 1577 comet helped undermine Ari...
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Sophie Brahe
1556-1643
Danish horticulturist and astronomer who occasionally assisted her brother Tycho Brahe (1546-1601). She frequently visited Tycho at his observatory Uraniborg on the island Hven ...
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Brahe, Tycho (1546-1601)
Danish astronomer
Tycho Brahe was one of the most colorful astronomers in history. Born in Denmark, Brahe was "adopted" (some say kidnapped) by his childless unc...
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The Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) carried pretelescopic astronomy to its highest perfection and tried to steer a middle course between the Ptolemaic and the Copernican systems.Tycho Brahe,...
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Tycho Brahe was one of the most colorful astronomers in history. Born on December 14, 1546, in Denmark, Tycho was "adopted" (some say kidnapped) by his childless uncle at the age of one. Either way, h...
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Counted among the greatest pre-telescopic astronomers, Tycho Brahe was renowned for his many achievements, including revealing irregularities in the Moon's orbit and developing the wall quadrant and o...
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Tycho Brahe made the most accurate observations ever in naked-eye astronomy, which led to the laws of planetary motion created by Johannes Kepler, one of his students.Tycho was born December 14, 1546,...
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One of the central figures of the modern scientific breakthrough, Tycho Brahe was also a multifaceted cultural personality and a promoter of Renaissance art and culture in Scandinavia. Among his many ...
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In the following excerpt, originally published in 1890, Dreyer assesses Brahe 's De mundi—a monograph on the comet of 1577, which contains Brahe's elaboration of his planetary sys...
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In the following essay, Zeeberg studies Brahe's Latin poem Urania Titani as a work that blends mythic astrology, the pseudoscience of alchemy, and the literary influence of Ovid.
The famous ...
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In the following essay, Krupp evaluates the legacy of Brahe's astronomical observations.
Once you get past a sesquicentennial—the felicitously fabricated designation for a 150th anniv...
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In the following essay, Ball recounts the life of Brahe, noting his character, technical innovations, and impact on the field of astronomy.
The most picturesque figure in the history of astronomy i...
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In the following excerpt, Thoren probes the gradual, deductive creation of Brahe's theory of the moon.
Of all the projects undertaken by Tycho Brahe in his redintegration of astronomy, his r...
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In the following excerpt, Christianson details the political, religious, and cosmological implications of Brahe's publication of his vernacular treatise on the comet of 1577.
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Tycho Brahe w...
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In the following excerpt, Thoren explores the development of Brahe's cosmological system after his observance of the comet of 1577 until his publication of De mundi in 1588.
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In the following essay, Rosen argues that Brahe was not the annotator of the Prague copy of Nicolaus Copernicus's De revolutionibus, as some have contended.
Nicholas Copernicus ' On t...
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In the following excerpt, Rosen describes the publication, and the possible plagiarizing, of Brahe 's celestial system in 1588.
I. Brahe 's Publication of His Hypothesis
Tycho Brahe (...
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In the following essay, McPeak investigates Brahe's scientific accomplishments at Uraniborg and Stjerneborg, detailing the wide variety of astronomical equipment he designed for his two island ...
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In the following excerpt, Thoren examines the evolution of Brahe's planetary system and the slow publication of the astronomer's De mundi. Thoren concludes that the observations in Brahe...
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Prague (dpa) - Prague's fascinating legion of human sculptures
stare solemnly into heaven, dejectedly at the ground or directly at
you.
Many depict famous peo...
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After due consideration in my copious free time, I have reached the conclusion that the world's original scientific instrument was the clock.
Yes, I know that people have used mirrors since ant...
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Critical Essay by J. L. E. Dreyer
Statues of the famous and obscure watch over Prague
