Brahe,Tycho

Shackelford, Jole. Tycho Brahe, laboratory design, and the aim of science. Isis 84 (1993) 211-230. 

From Hipparchos to Tycho Brahe, over almost two thousand years, observation instruments remained practically unchanged - the mural quadrant, the triquetrum and the armillary sphere, heavy wooden or even stone devices the size of a man and often fixed like monuments. Glass and metal would revolutionise astronomy, as would the photographic plate and electronics. 

Cardanus, Stevinus, Tycho Brahe, Galileo, Vesalius, Co-... 

TThis prediction was confirmed in 1987 when scientists in the United States and Japan detected prompt neutrinos from SN1987a. This event was the first naked eye supernova to be seen since the 1604 event witnessed by Tycho Brahe. 

Owen Hannaway, "Laboratory Design and the Aim of Science," Isis 77 (1986) 585-610 William R. Newman, "Alchemical Symbolism and Concealment The Chemical House of Libavius," in The Architecture of Science, ed. Peter Galison and Emily Thompson (Cambridge, Mass. MIT Press, 1999), 59-78 Jole Shackelford, "Tycho Brahe, Laboratory Design, and the Aim of Science Reading Plans in Context," Isis 84 (1993) 211-30. 

Describing Libavius s critique of Tycho s laboratory at Uraniborg, Jole Shackelford notes "A key component in Libavius s characterization of Tycho Brahe s contemplative Paracelsian science is his portrayal of Uraniborg as a place of darkness darkness surrounds Tycho as he looks to the heavens from his upper-story observatory, darkness envelops the chemical research conducted in the basement laboratory, and this darkness reaches out to taint the morality of Uraniborg and its inhabitants. The darkness that envelops Tycho s science in Pythagorean secrecy is connected with the dark recesses of the earth, home to the forces of evil." Shackelford, "Tycho Brahe, Laboratory Design, and the Aim of Science," 213. 

Shackelford, "Tycho Brahe, Laboratory Design, and the Aim of Science,"... 

Tycho Brahe, Tychonis Brage Dani Opera Omnia, ed. J. L. E. Dreyer,... 

Christianson, John Robert. On Tycho s Island Tycho Brahe and His Assistants (1S70-1601). Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 2000. 

Early in 1600, Kepler joined the astronomer Tycho Brahe at his observatory in Prague. Soon thereafter Kepler became consumed with the problem of establishing an orbit for the planet Mars. For this effort, Kepler had excellent data accurate observations of Mars s position at various times over a period of years. These observations, made by Tycho Brahe, were the most accurate posi-... 

On the evening of November 11, 1572 the sky was clear. A young Danish nobleman Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) was returning home for supper from his alchemical laboratory. He observed an unfamiliar starlike object in the sky, much brighter than Sirius, Vega and even Venus [1]. This observation was to become decisive for the young man s life. 

Tycho Brahe and his assistants collected an extensive amount of precise astronomical observations. In 1597, however, soon after tlie old king of Denmark had died, he was forced to leave Ven. His entourage... 

Newton tested his own ideas by rederiving the laws of Kepler, while Kepler had deduced his three laws from Tycho s observational data. So in fact, at the very foundation of modem Science we find a this very fruitful relationship between observation and theory. It is all too easy to forget that in the, not so distant past, the computers were humans [6]. To trace the pre-history behind the modem computers is yet another story [7]. In the case of Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton, using a modem vocabulary, it was Kepler who did the work of a computer , while Tycho Brahe provided the experimental evidence and Newton supplied the theoretical and mathematical models. Thanks to these pioneering scientists we perform our Molecular Dynamics simulations today [8-10]. 

For Galileo studies of the moon or the phases of Venus were not qualitatively different from studies of the pendulum and of inclined planes. The approach was the same, the kind of results expected were governed by the same outlook. Tycho Brahe and Kepler brought the observation of planetary motion and planetary theory closer to perfection, and, finally, Newton combined the motions of the planets and the laws of falling bodies into one universal law of gravitation. The universe held together. 

Left Emperor Rudolf II, who died in 1612. He was greatly interested in all aspects of the science of his time, being a patron of the astronomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, hut alchemy came to ohsess his mind and near the end of his life he neglected the affairs of state. Haughty and suspicious, he was not popular. Below the Golden Lane in Prague, which was also called the Street of the Alchemists, after the many men who worked for Rudolf II. 

To dress chemistry in academic garb required a community effort and, at least in 1595, the best person to lead that community seemed to be a professor at the German University of Jena named Zacharias Brendel (1553-1626). Brendel had erudition, eloquence, experience, and method. Libavius believed that, just as astronomy and logic had been reformed during his lifetime, so too could Brendel provide the fundamental principles and general precepts for constructing a logical method for chemistry. Tycho Brahe [the astronomer] is said to be the restorer of astronomy, he wrote. Why not win praise for yourself from chemistry . . . We shall piously set up a statue in honor of chemistry for you if we owe the perfection of the art to your industry (book 1, pp. 115-16). 

Contreras, Jean-Marie, Prestwick Chemical Inc., Rue Tobias Stimmer, Batiment Tycho, Brahe, 67400 IlUdrch, France... 

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Tycho Brahe, the great astronomer of the next generation clearly appreciated the simplicity of the heliocentric model but, even more conservative than Copernicus, refused to consider a moving Earth. As a compromise he made the five planets spin around the sun, while the sun and moon revolved about the earth. This device predicted the same relative motion of the heavenly bodies as the Copernican model. 

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