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  1. Brahe, Tycho Brahenoun

    Danish astronomer whose observations of the planets provided the basis for Kepler's laws of planetary motion (1546-1601)

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  1. Tycho Brahe

    Tycho Brahe ( TY-koh BRAH-(h)ee, -⁠(h)ə); born Tyge Ottesen Brahe; generally called Tycho (14 December 1546 – 24 October 1601) was a Danish astronomer, known for his comprehensive astronomical observations, generally considered to be the most accurate of his time. He was known during his lifetime as an astronomer, astrologer, and alchemist. He was the last major astronomer before the invention of the telescope. An heir to several noble families, Tycho was well-educated. He took an interest in astronomy and in the creation of more accurate instruments of measurement. He worked to combine what he saw as the geometrical benefits of Copernican heliocentrism with the philosophical benefits of the Ptolemaic system, and devised the Tychonic system, his own version of a model of the Universe, with the Sun orbiting the Earth, and the planets as orbiting the Sun. In De nova stella (1573), he refuted the Aristotelian belief in an unchanging celestial realm. His measurements indicated that "new stars" (stellae novae, now called supernovae) moved beyond the Moon, and he was able to show that comets were not atmospheric phenomena, as was previously thought. King Frederick II granted Tycho an estate on the island of Hven and the money to build Uraniborg, the first large observatory in Christian Europe. He later worked underground at Stjerneborg, where he realised that his instruments in Uraniborg were not sufficiently steady. He treated the island residents as if he were an autocrat; they unsuccessfully sued him over their treatment. In 1597, he was forced by the new king, Christian IV, to leave Denmark. He was invited to Prague, where he became the official imperial astronomer, and built an observatory at Benátky nad Jizerou. Prior to his death in 1601, he was assisted for a year by Johannes Kepler, who went on to use Tycho's data to develop his own three laws of planetary motion.

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    Tycho Brahe was a 16th-century Danish nobleman and astronomer known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical observations. He pioneered astronomical research and built advanced astronomical instruments that allowed him to measure and record the movement of celestial bodies with unprecedented accuracy. Even without the aid of telescope (as it had not been invented yet), he was able to provide detailed documentation of planetary motion, which greatly contributed to the scientific revolution and to our modern understanding of the solar system. His work was fundamental for the laws of planetary motion established by his assistant Johannes Kepler.

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  1. Tycho Brahe

    Tycho Brahe, born Tyge Ottesen Brahe, was a Danish nobleman known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations. He was born in Scania, then part of Denmark, now part of modern-day Sweden. Tycho was well known in his lifetime as an astronomer and alchemist. In his De nova stella of 1573, he refuted the Aristotelian belief in an unchanging celestial realm. His precise measurements indicated that "new stars," in particular that of 1572, lacked the parallax expected in sub-lunar phenomena, and were therefore not "atmospheric" tailless comets as previously believed, but were above the atmosphere and moon. Using similar measurements he showed that comets were also not atmospheric phenomena, as previously thought, and must pass through the supposedly "immutable" celestial spheres. As an astronomer, Tycho worked to combine what he saw as the geometrical benefits of the Copernican system with the philosophical benefits of the Ptolemaic system into his own model of the universe, the Tychonic system. Furthermore, he was the last of the major naked eye astronomers, working without telescopes for his observations.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of tycho brahe in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

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    The numerical value of tycho brahe in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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