Tag: Tycho Brahe

Download Tycho Brahe's observations as ebooks for free. An outreach project with University of Southern Denmark.

Currently, I am collaborating with the research library at University of Southern Denmark. They have a special collection of old books, some of them from Tycho Brahe. I am working on making them public, so everyone can enjoy this blast from the past!

Today is the birthday of the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. He lived from 1546 to 1601, where he died in Prague. He discovered SN1572, which we today know is a supernova, but back then he thought to have discovered a new star. For this reason he published the famous "De Stella Nova" in 1573, which … Continue reading Christmas at Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg →