Great Astronomers

Tycho Brahe

• Author(s): Robert Stawell Ball,
• Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP Print US
• Pages: 35
• ISBN_10: 1731314620
  ISBN_13: 9781731314628
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Biography & Autobiography / General , Science / Space Science / Astronomy ,

Description:... Great Astronomers: Tycho Braheby Robert Stawell BallTycho Brahe (/ˈtiːkoʊ, ˈtaɪ- ˈbrɑː, ˈbrɑːhi, -(h)ə/; born Tyge Ottesen Brahe;[n 1] 14 December 1546 - 24 October 1601) was a Danish nobleman, astronomer, and writer known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations. He was born in the then Danish peninsula of Scania. Well known in his lifetime as an astronomer, astrologer and alchemist, he has been described as "the first competent mind in modern astronomy to feel ardently the passion for exact empirical facts."[1] His observations were some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.