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1546, Dec 141560-16011601, Oct24
a Danish nobleman known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations. He was born in Scania, then part of Denmark, now part of modern-day Sweden. Tycho was well known in his lifetime as an astronomer, astrologer and alchemist.
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08/21/1560-13-year-old Tycho Brahe becomes interested in astronomy
11/11/1572-Supernova is observed by Tycho Brahe in constellation Cassiopeia
02/11/1575-King Frederick II of Denmark offers island of Hveen to Tycho Brahe 
05/23/1576-Tycho Brahe given Hveen Island to build Uraniborg Observatory 
08/08/1576-The cornerstone is laid for Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory on an island east of Copenhagen
02/13/1578-Tycho Brahe first sketches "Tychonic system" of solar system 
02/04/1600-Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler meet for first time near Prague 
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Wilhelm Freiherr von Biela
...theoretical considerations of comets "falling into the Sun," Tycho Brahe, and occultations of stars by the Moon....
Willem Blaeu
...1594 and 1596, as a student of the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, he qualified as an instrument and globe maker....
Sir Christopher Heydon
...science, compatible with Christianity. He drew upon Tycho Brahe and others.
Ole Christensen Romer
...Gregorian calendar in Denmark-Norway — something Tycho Brahe had argued for in vain a hundred years earlier.
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Tycho Brahe1546, Dec 141560
 
16011601, Oct24
Thomas Digges1546 ca1572
 
 
15941595, Aug 24
 an English mathematician and astronomer. He was the first to expound the Copernican system in Eng...
John Dee1527, Jul 131546
 
16051609 ca
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David Fabricius1564, Mar 91584
 
16171617, May 7
 a German pastor who made two major discoveries in the early days of telescopic astronomy, jointly...
Thomas Harriot1560 ca1580
 
16211621, Jul 2
 an English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer, and translator. He is sometimes credited with...
Johannes Kepler1571, Dec 271594
 
16301630, Nov 15
 a German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer. A key figure in the 17th century scientific r...
Galileo Galilei1564, Feb 151581
 
16381642, Jan 8
 an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician who played a major rol...
Godefroy Wendelin1580, Jun 61599
 
16521667, Oct 24
 a Flemish astronomer. The crater Vendelinus on the Moon is named after him. Around 1630 he measur...
George Hartgillunknown1590
 
 
168unknown
 an English astronomer. Hartgill was in considerable repute during Elizabeth I's reign, from his k...
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