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Tycho Brahe   Listen
Tycho Brahe

noun
1.
Danish astronomer whose observations of the planets provided the basis for Kepler's laws of planetary motion (1546-1601).  Synonym: Brahe.





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"Tycho Brahe" Quotes from Famous Books



... could not explain all the motions. And Tycho Brahe, another great astronomer, who did not believe at all in the new ideas of Copernicus, made a number of observations on our near neighbor Mars, to show that Copernicus was wrong. He gave these to Kepler, another great ...
— St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 - No 1, Nov 1877 • Various


Words linked to "Tycho Brahe" :   Brahe, stargazer, uranologist, astronomer


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