Tycho Brahe
Tyge (In Latin as Tycho) Brahe was born on December 14, 1546 in Skane, then in Denmark, now in Sweden. He was the first son of Otto Brahe and Beatte Bille, “both from families in the high nobility of Denmark” (Internet source). He was brought up by his uncle Brahe and became his heir. He attended the universities of Copenhagen and Leipzig, and then traveled through the German region, studying further at the universities of Wittenberg, Rostock, and Base and it was during this period that his interest in alchemy and astronomy was aroused, and he bought several astronomical instruments to help him with his studies. Tycho Brahe is a very important figure that brought new ideas into the study of astronomy. Tycho Brahe's contributions to astronomy were enormous. He not only designed and built instruments; he also calibrated them and checked their accuracy periodically. He thus revolutionized astronomical instrumentation. He also changed observational practice profoundly. Whereas earlier astronomers had been content to observe the positions of planets and the Moon at certain important points of their orbits, Tycho and his cast of assistants observed these bodies throughout their orbits. As a result, a number of o
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