Tycho Brahe (1546-1603) was a pioneering Danish astronomy instruments enthusiast in the decades before the telescope was used for peering at the sky. Aside from that and a big supernova discovery ...

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Raised in the Lutheran church, Tycho was led to believe that the earth was the center of the universe, but his carefully ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Celestial Palace of Tycho Brahe ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 204 No. 2 (February 1961), p. 118 doi:10.1038 ...