Tycho Brahe

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Tycho Brahe Biography

Tycho Brahe (14 December 1546 – 24 October 1601), born Tyge Ottesen Brahe (de Knudstrup), was a Danish nobleman known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations. Coming from Scania, then part of Denmark, now part of modern-day Sweden, Tycho was well known in his lifetime as an astronomer and alchemist. His Danish name "Tyge Ottesen Brahe" is pronounced in Modern Standard Danish as [ˈtˢyːə ˈʌd̥əsn̩ ˈb̥ʁɑː]. He adopted the Latinized name "Tycho Brahe" from Tycho (sometimes written Tÿcho) at around age fifteen, and he is now generally referred to as "Tycho",[1] as was common in Scandinavia in his time, rather than by his surname "Brahe". (The incorrect form of his name, Tycho de Brahe, appeared only much later.) Tycho Brahe was granted an estate on the island of Hven and the funding to build the Uraniborg, an early research institute, where he built large astronomical instruments and took many careful measurements. After disagreements with the new king in 1597, he was invited by the Bohemian king and Holy Roman emperor Rudolph II to Prague, where he became the official imperial astronomer. He built the new observatory at Benátky nad Jizerou. Here, from 1600 until his death in 1601, he was assisted by Johannes Kepler. Kepler later used Tycho's astronomical information to develop his own theories of astronomy. As an astronomer, Tycho worked to combine what he saw as the geometrical benefits of the Copernican system with the philosophical benefits of the Ptolemaic system into his own model of the universe, the Tychonic system. Tycho is credited with the most accurate astronomical observations of his time, and the data was used by his assistant Kepler to derive the laws of planetary motion. No one before Tycho had attempted to make so many planetary observations.)

The Best Poem Of Tycho Brahe

Gravskrift Over Hans Frandsen

Si mortale nihil deceat perferre Camoenas,
Sique Poetarum fama perennis erit,
Arte Machaonia, docuit qui primus Apollo,
Si Libitina tuum jus inhibere licet,
Musica, lætitiæ, genitus, convictus amicus,
Si cita Parcarum sistere fila queant:
Quæris, in hoc tumolo cur condidit ante diem?
Franciscus? curque is concidit ante diem?
Quem Musæ et Charites adeo coluere, quod inter
Præcipuos vates nomen habere darent,
Et cui contribuit facundi cura Galeni,
Conspicuus Medica Doctor ut arte foret,
Musica mentem hilarem, facilis convictus amicos,
Egregium mores attribuere decus.
Ille severa tamen poterat nec flectere fata
Et multo lustris plus supereße decem.
Scilicet est certi præfixus terminus ævi,
Quem superare nequit; stat sua cuique dies.
Nec mors sæva ulli parcet, licet ipse Machaon
Arte siet Medica, carminibusque Maro,
Orphea seu cantu superet, seu Thesea amore;
Est adeo claris mors inimica viris.
Ergo nihil mirum est, quod fatis ceßit iniquis
Vir, qui perpetuo vivere dignus erat.
Forsitan et mores hominum terrasque perosus
Optabat superis civis adeße Diis.
Nec frustratus in hoc, Christo duce, gaudet Olympo:
Heic sine fine quies, vita salusque datur.

Obiit Anno 1584. Ætatis suæ 52.

Amico post fata, quod vivo. adixit.

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