Tycho Brahe

Born December 14, 1546 in Denmark to members of nobility. I am famous for making very accurate predictions on the locations of stars and planets.

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I lived by the motto "Non viduri sed esse" which means "Not to be seen but to be"

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in 1597 I became the official imperial astronomer of the Holy Roman empire under Rudolph II where I based my studies in Prague.

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One of my proudest inventions is my Tychonian Quadrant which helped me to make exact measurements on the times and locations of observations

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My most important discovery regarding Lunar theory included the discovery of variation in the longitude of the moon.
#NotPerfectlyRound

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I have craters on the moon and on mars that are named after me!
#nowyouknow

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Fun Fact: I wasn't just a one trick pony with astronomy. I developed herbal medicines that stayed in use up until the very early 1900s.

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Galileo, you may have disproved my version of the solar system by proving geo-centrism, but you needed a telescope to do it!
#NotImpressed

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I was a living telescope in my prime!
#admiremyvision

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Make sure to check out my very old discoveries in my second edition of Introduction to the New Astronomy where I discuss the comet of 1577!

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artisans worked for over 20 years while I made discover after discovery in space above.
#ThanksFreddy

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s/o to big King Frederick II for funding all my astronomical studies on Hven in my new observatory called Uraniborg where many students and

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My discovery of this star in 1572 disproved the popular theory that everything in space beyond the moon's orbit was eternally unchanged.

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While observing the heavens from good old Herrevad Abbey in 1572 I noticed a star in the constellation Cassiopeia that shouldn't be there.

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I admired both the Copernican system as well as the Ptolemaic system so my system(The Tychonic System) was a mix of the two!

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My version of the solar system had the sun, moon and stars revolving around the earth while the other 5 planets revolved around the sun.

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I had 1% of all the money in Denmark...Obviously I had no idea how to use it.
#petelk

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Lost most of my nose in a sword duel to a dolt who believes that his flawed mathematical theory is correct.Time to get the bling.
#goldnose

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Without my friend Kepler, my discoveries would probably have never been noticed. With his help we developed his laws of planetary motion.

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I was educated at the University of Copenhagen and also at the University of Rostock

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In addition to my predictions, I found that the nova of 1572 was a star and the orbit of the 1577 comet lay past the moon.