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 orbital anomalies never before noticed were made explicit by Tycho. Without these complete series of observations of unprecedented accuracy, Kepler could not have discovered that planets move in elliptical orbits. Tycho was also the first astronomer to make corrections for atmospheric.
             In 1572 Tycho observed the new star in Cassiopeia and published a brief tract about it the following year. Later, in 1574 he gave a course of lectures on astronomy at the University of Copenhagen. He was now convinced that the improvement of astronomy hinged on accurate observations. After another tour of Germany, where he visited astronomers, Tycho accepted an offer from the King Frederick II to fund an observatory. With...

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