Tycho Brahe
1546 – 1601 Danish astronomer
The astronomer whose precise measurements made Kepler's laws possible.
- Religion
- Lutheran, as standard in Denmark; his interests included astrology and alchemy.
- Affiliations
- Ran the Uraniborg observatory under royal patronage. No secret society.
Tycho Brahe made the most accurate naked-eye observations of the stars and planets ever recorded, before the telescope. He proposed a hybrid model of the cosmos and famously lost part of his nose in a duel. His data, inherited by Kepler, transformed astronomy.
Connections
- mentor of Johannes Kepler — He inherited Tycho's observations and built his laws on them.
- student of Johannes Kepler — Kepler was his assistant and heir to his data.
In the timeline
- 1572 Tycho Brahe observes new star in Cassiopeia central figure
- 1576 Tycho Brahe builds the best pre-telescope observatory central figure