Tycho brahe brief biography of thomas jefferson
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The Lord of Uraniborg: A Biography of Tycho Brahe 0521351588, 9780521351584
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The Lord of Uraniborg
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Frontispiece from Tycho's Astronomical Letters of 1596. The inscription reads "Likeness of Tycho Brahe, son of Otte the Dane, Lord of Kundstrup and founder of the Castle of Uraniborg on the Island of Hven in the Danish Hellespont, and inventor and builder of the astronomical instruments used there. Done in 1586 at the age of 40."
THE LORD OF URANIBORG A Biography of Tycho Brahe VICTOR E. THOREN Professor of History and Philosophy of Science Indiana University
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JOHN R. CHRISTIANSON
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Meet the scoundrels of astronomy
History is littered with astronomers who doggedly pursued fame at the expense of the scientific method.
While researching a biographical encyclopaedia, Thomas Hockey of the University of Northern Iowa compiled a list of “really bad” astronomers. Some were combative, while others seem to have stolen ideas or manufactured data, infiltrating the astronomical community “like wolves among the sheep”. Hockey discussed them last month at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
Nicolaus Reimers Baer (“Ursus”) (1551-1600)
Ursus incited a bitter controversy in 1588, when he published a geocentric model of the solar system (pictured) that looked quite similar to Tycho Brahe‘s. In both models, the planets orbited the Sun, while the Sun orbited the Earth. Some accounts suggest Ursus plagiarised the work. “He was not invited into Tycho’s office, but he went there anyway,” Hockey says. “Lo and behold, not long after his departure, he was promoting a theory very similar to Tycho’s.” Ursus was appointed imperial mathematician of the Holy Roman Empire, a position Tycho eventually took over. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)Chevalier d’Angos (1744-1833)
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