Tycho Brahe
By Abby Dougherty
Background
Achievements
Impact on Today
Interesting Facts
- Even without a telescope, Tycho Brahe and his observations shaped modern astronomy.
- At the age of nineteen, Tycho was involved in a duel over a math emblematic point, during which he lost his nose and wore a silver prosthesis for the rest of his life.
- Proposed the idea that a solar system in which all the planets orbit around the sun, but Sun orbited the Earth( to account for a year), and the celestial sphere made a single rotation each day.
Citation
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