While the name Tycho Brahe (astrologer, alchemist, spagyrist, early astronomer) does appear in textbooks, what he did takes a back-seat to names like Keppler and Copernicus. In this there is irony. Neither Keppler or Copernicus did any real first-hand observation of the heavens. Tycho Brahe spent a life-time observing first-hand. It is also ironic that (more...)
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