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
Tycho's major works include De Nova et Nullius Aevi Memoria Prius Visa Stella Tycho was an enormous contributor in the study of astronomy but he also had a personal side that has helped him to become as famous as he is. His death being one of the reasons that he is as famous as he is. It is told that Tycho Brahe died of a "complication to his bladder", when he did not go to the restroom from politeness at a dinner in Prage, 1601, eleven days before his death. On October 13, 1601, Tycho was invited together with a nobleman called Minchwitz to a supper at baron von Rosenberg. Before they sat down at the table, Tycho did not go to relieve himself, as he otherwise usually did. During the dinner lots of wine was consumed, and Tycho noticed that his bladder was tense, and he realized that he soon would have to get up. Out of respect for the host, he waited however, but finally he had to get up from the table and get home. Waiting to long had blocked his bladder and he could not relieve himself. Hard pains followed and for five days he could not sleep. He also had a strong fever and dizziness and for another five days this state lasted. The following night, October 24, Tycho was relatively calm; the fever dizziness faded but the sickness had taken so much of his powers that the end came in only a few hours. Was Tycho therefore a follower of Copernicus? He was not. Tycho gave various reasons for not accepting the heliocentric theory, but it appears that he could not abandon Aristotelian physics, which is predicated, on an absolute notion of place. Heavy bodies fall to their natural place, the Earth, which is the center of the universe. Tycho became fifty-four years and ten months, a short time thinking of the age he could have achieved, but long taken into account his brilliant scientific achievements, the rumors of which will live, as long as the studies of the stars will fascin
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