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Tycho Brahe

Danish astronomer known for pioneering precise celestial measurements before the telescope era.

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Known for: Accurate astronomical observations that advanced modern science and launched the Scientific Revolution
Listed under: Danish Icons

About Tycho Brahe

He was known during his lifetime as an astronomer, astrologer, and alchemist. In 1572, Tycho noticed a completely new star (now designated SN 1572) that was brighter than any star or planet. King Frederick II granted Tycho an estate on the island of Hven and the money to build Uraniborg, the first large observatory in Christian Europe. He later worked underground at Stjerneborg, where he realised that his instruments in Uraniborg were not sufficiently steady. An heir to several noble families, Tycho was well educated. He worked to combine what he saw as the geometrical benefits of Copernican heliocentrism with the philosophical benefits of the Ptolemaic system, and devised the Tychonic system, his own version of a model of the Universe, with the Sun orbiting the Earth, and the planets as orbiting the Sun. In De nova stella (1573), he refuted the Aristotelian belief in an unchanging celestial realm. His measurements indicated that "new stars", stellae novae, now called supernovae, moved beyond the Moon, and he was able to show that comets were not atmospheric phenomena, as was previously thought. In 1597, Tycho was forced by the new king, Christian IV, to leave Denmark. He was invited to Prague, where he became the official imperial astronomer, and built an observatory at Benátky nad Jizerou.

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