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Old 02-18-2005, 12:39 AM   #63 (permalink)
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"Thanks, professor."

Evy smiled.

"In the book I searched it, it said that Tycho Brahe was born in Skane, Denmark, now Skane, Sweden, in 1546. Is it a different name for Knudstrup? And he died in Prague, Bohemia, in 1601 as the others said."

"A funny fact (well, not really funny lol) is that he lost part of his nose during a duel with another student while he went to University. He created the finest observatory of that time in Hven, and that's where he made most of his researches. Here are some of his work that were published only after his death: On the New and Never Previously Seen Star, Concerning the New Phenomena in the Ethereal World, Instruments for the Restored Astronomy, and Introductory Exercises Toward a Restored Astronomy. He was a reknown scientist at that time. Tycho and his assistant, Johanne Kepler (who was a man by the way) calculated the planetary orbits and their tables were much more accurate then any previous tables. He is known for revolutionizing astronomical instrumentation."

"However, Tycho was not a follower of Copernicus, because he thought that the Earth was the center of the Universe but he used some of his theories and some theories of Aristotle to imagine a new system: the moon and sun revolve around the Earth, but the other planets revolve around the sun."
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