Tycho Brahe

Tycho Brahe (born Tyge Ottesen Brahe) (December 14, 1546 – October 24 1601) was a Danish nobleman known primarily for his work as an astronomer and an astrologer (the two were highly related in his day), as well as an alchemist. He was granted an estate on the island of Hven and the funding to build the Uraniborg, an early research institute, where he built large astronomical instruments and took many careful measurements. As an astronomer, Tycho worked to combine what he saw as the geometrical benefits of the Copernican system with the philosophical benefits of the Ptolemaic system into his own model of the universe, the Tychonian system. His best known assistant was Johannes Kepler, who would later use Tycho's astronomical information to develop his own theories of astronomy.

References

• Skautrup, Peter, 1941 Den jyske lov: Text med oversattelse og ordbog. Aarhus: Universitets-forlag.
• Wittendorff, ALex. 1994. Tyge Brahe. Copenhagen: G. E. C. Gad.
• {{fnb|1}} {{Web reference | URL=http://www.nada.kth.se/~fred/tycho/nose.html | title=Tycho Brahe's Nose And The Story Of His Pet Moose | work=www.nada.kth.se | year=2005 | date=March 31}} from a translation from Gassendi
• {{fnb|2}} {{Book reference | Author=J. L. E. Dreyer | Title=Tycho Brahe: A Picture of Scientific Life and Work in the Sixteenth Century | Publisher=Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh | Year=1890 | ID=unknown ISBN }} page 210 refers to Tycho's elk as cited by:
• {{Web reference | URL=http://www.nd.edu/~kkrisciu/strange/strange.html | title=Strange Cases from the Files of Astronomical Sociology | work=University of Notre Dame | year=2005 | date=March 31}}
• {{fnb|3}} {{Web reference | URL=http://www.griffithobs.org/IPSHowTychoDied.html | title=How Tycho Brahe Really Died | work=griffithobs.org | year=2005 | date=March 31}}