Tycho Brahe
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Renaissance
- Categories: Science
- Subcategories: Scientists, Inventors, Astronomy, Astronomers, Cosmology
- Curriculum: Renaissance History, Scandinavian History
Article abstract: Brahe realized early that the existing means for observing and measuring celestial bodies and their motions were inaccurate. His great achievements are to have significantly improved existing instruments, to have invented some new instruments, and to have made amazingly accurate observations.
Early Life
Tyge Brahe Ottosøn was the eldest of ten children born to Otto Brahe. The Brahes were an old and noble family with both Danish and Swedish branches. Tyge’s father was privy councillor to the King of Denmark at the time of Tyge’s...
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