Tycho Brahe
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 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." His observations were some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time...
NationalityDanish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth14 December 1546
CountryDenmark
Tycho Brahe quotes about
An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.
It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.
There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.