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Tycho Brahe: A Picture of Scientific Life and Work in the Sixteenth Century

Tycho Brahe: A Picture of Scientific Life and Work in the Sixteenth Century

Dreyer, John Louis Emil

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Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Astronomy

Biographies GeneralSports GeneralAstronomy & Space

ISBN10: 1108068715
ISBN13: 9781108068710
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Feb 13 2014
Pages: 434
Weight: 1.21
Height: 0.97 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Famous for his metal prosthetic nose, and for being associated with 'unlucky' days in Scandinavian folklore, Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) made the most accurate naked-eye astronomical measurements of his day. Cataloguing more than 1,000 new stars, his stellar and planetary observations helped lay the foundations of early modern astronomy. John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852-1926) was a fellow Dane, but he spent much of his working life in Ireland. When he was fourteen, he had read a book about Brahe and this inspired him to 'be an astronomer and nothing else'. First published in 1890, Dreyer's biography of his hero remained the definitive work for more than a century. He sets out to illuminate not simply the life of his subject, but also the lives and work of Brahe's contemporaries and the progress of science in the sixteenth century.

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