Short Biography of Tycho Brahe
Short Biography of Tycho Brahe, outline: Tycho Brahe was a Danish philosopher born to the nobility in 1546. He took observational astronomy to a new level of accuracy, and died in 1601.
Short Biography of Tycho Brahe - early life?
This short biography of Tycho Brahe begins with his adult life -- not much is known about his early life.
Short Biography of Tycho Brahe - adult life
King Frederick II of Denmark gave Tycho Brahe the island of Hven, just off the coast of Denmark. He also paid for Uraniborg ("Castle of the Heavens") - Tycho Brahe's world-leading observatory. This consumed 5% of Denmark's GNP over several years - "an all-time world record for research centre funding," Singh p.47.
Uraniborg held giant naked-eye instruments (the telescope had not been invented yet). These included sextants, quadrants and armillary spheres.
Tycho Brahe argued that planets orbited the Sun, but the Sun orbited the Earth. "He was reluctant to dislodge the Earth, because its supposed centrality was the only way to explain why objects fall towards the centre of the Earth." Singh p.50.
A new king cut off Tycho Brahe's funding and he moved to Prague where Emperor Rudolph II gave him Benatky Castle, funding and a new assistant - Johannes Kepler. He died soon after meeting Kepler and left him all his observational data.
Short Biography of Tycho Brahe - timeline
| Before | Contemporary | After |
| Aristotle | Sir Isaac Newton | |
| Galileo biography | ||
| Ptolemy biography | Johannes Kepler biography | |
| Copernicus biography | A Short Biography of Albert Einstein |