Tycho

Examples

• Tycho Brahe had a great reverence for Copernicus, but he did not accept his planetary system; and he fe lt that advance in astronomy depended on painstaking observation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• On either side are represented as hanging small pictures of Tycho's patron, Frederick II of Denmark (d. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• By this time great astronomers like Tycho Brahe and Valherius had divided the time-recording dials into minutes and seconds. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Then other instruments and rooms of the observatory are pictured; Tycho's stud ents, of whom there were always at least six or eight, not to mention younger pupils. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The author had a consciousness of his own worth, and deserves the name Tycho the Magnificent. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Finally comes one of Tycho's hunting dogs--very faithful and sagacious; he serves here as a hieroglyph of his master's nobility as well as of sagacity and fidelity. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• One of the greatest contributors to this advance was the celebrated Danish astronomer, Tycho Brahe (154 6-1601). Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Over his head is an automatic celestial globe invented by Tycho and constructed at his own expense in 1 590. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Then there is pictured Tycho's chemical laboratory, on which he has expended much money. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The expert architect and the two artists who assisted Tycho are delineated in the landscape and even in the setting sun in the top-most part of the painting, and in the decoration above. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Over the globe is a part of Tycho's library. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Lest any space on the wall should lie empty a number of paintings were added: Tycho himself in an easy attitude seated at a table and directing from a book the work of his students. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

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