The English reader will note with special interest the arms of Rosenkrans and Guidensteren, and we have not far to seek for bearers of those arms. In Dr. Dreyer's “Tycho Brahe” (1890) Jörgen ...

Two years after Tycho Brahe was exhumed from his grave in Prague, chemical analyses of his corpse show that mercury poisoning did not kill the prolific 16th-century astronomer. The results should ...

Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) might quite possibly hold the distinction of history's most eccentric astronomer. His scientific accomplishments include the discovery of the supernova in 1572 and a series ...

An Atypical Scientist The 16th-century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe was one of the most amazing figures in the history of science. Born in 1546 to a noble and wealthy family, Brahe’s passion ...

Skeleton of 16th century astronomer Tycho Brahe Marek Jantač / Kacki et al 2018 / PLOS One / CC BY 4.0 The famed 16th century Danish astronomer and mathematician Tycho Brahe was long assumed to ...

WikipediaDanish astronomer Tycho Brahe died in 1601 in Prague, at the age of 54, under possibly suspicious circumstances. Astronomers have announced that a bright light in the sky noticed by a ...

Tycho Brahe, an astronomer, studied alchemy to help make medical elixirs. Researchers found traces of tungsten in shards of glass and ceramic from his laboratory. Tungsten wouldn't be isolated for ...

TYCHO BRAHE HONORED.; Tercentenary of a Great Astronomer Who Thought the Earth a Fixture. Share full article. Nov. 10, 1901. Credit... The New York Times Archives.

Stars die all the time, but the untimely passing of SN 1572, also known as Tycho's Supernova, is possibly the most famous. That's because it's relatively close to us in the Milky Way's Cassiopeia ...

A tale of murderous intrigue involving a king, a queen and a brilliant scientist could finally come to a close after 400 years as researchers are preparing to exhume the remains of the celebrated ...

On Tycho's Island John Robert Christianson, J. R. Christianson. Cambridge University Press, $65 (464pp) ISBN 978-0-521-65081-6 ...