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Family: A Danish family Brothers and Sisters: One older sister, and a younger brother that died shortly after his birth. Him: He made lots of advances in technology, and then used them to study the stars. His kids: He had many kids, but because of Danish custom were considered illegitimate because his wife was a peasant woman. **
 * Birth: December 14,1546 Died:October 24, 1601

 You might want to know some facts about Tycho! ***Tycho was the oldest son of Otto Brahe and Beatte Bille.


 * Tycho attended the universities of Copenhagen and Leipzig. Then traveled through the German region, studying further at the universities of Wittenberg, Rostock, and Basle


 * While in college his interest in alchemy and astronomy was aroused, and he bought several astronomical instruments to study the stars.


 * In a duel with another student, in Wittenberg in 1566, Tycho lost part of his nose. For the rest of his life he wore a metal insert over the missing part.


 * In 1572 Tycho observed the new star in Cassiopeia and published a brief tract about it the following year.


 * In 1574 he gave a course of lectures on astronomy at the University of Copenhagen.


 * After another tour of Germany, where he visited astronomers, Tycho accepted an offer from the King Frederick II to fund an observatory.


 * Tycho then had the finest observatory in Europe!


 * Tycho trained a generation of young astronomers there in the art of observing.


 * Tycho Brahe's contributions to astronomy were enormous. He not only designed and built instruments, he also calibrated them and checked their accuracy periodically. He thus revolutionized astronomical instrumentation.


 * Tycho developed a system that combined the best of both worlds. He kept the Earth in the center of the universe, so that he could retain Aristotelian physics (the only physics available).


 * Tycho was thought to die of a complication in his bladder, but now, after further studies, they believe he died of Mercury poisoning**

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By: Tycho Brahe  1.I conclude, therefore, that this star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor... but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.
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2. With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above, and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.

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 * //Did you know... th//****//at Tycho Brahe lost part of his nose doing a duel with a partner?//**

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