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Tycho Brahe
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What does Tycho Brahe mean?
noun
- Danish astronomer whose observations of the planets provided the basis for Kepler's laws of planetary motion (1546-1601)
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The instruments of the pre-telescopic age reached their glory in the hands of Tycho Brahe.
The Ptolemaic system gave way to Tycho Brahe, and his to that of Copernicus.
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The isle of Huen, a lovely domain, about six miles in circumference, had been the munificent gift of Frederick the Second to Tycho Brahe.
Though familiar with the works of Tycho Brahe, he finds it "hard to believe" that all comets are ethereal, and adduces several historical examples of sublunary ones.
We must not forget that even so great an observing astronomer as Tycho Brahe, so late as the seventeenth century, declined to accept the heliocentric theory, though admitting that all the planets except the earth revolve about the sun.