Tycho Brahe: A Picture of Scientific Life and Work in the Sixteenth Century

by John Louis Emil Dreyer

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Famous for his metal prosthetic nose, and for being associated with 'unlucky' days in Scandinavian folklore, Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) made the most accurate naked-eye astronomical measurements of his day. Cataloguing more than 1,000 new stars, his stellar and planetary observations helped lay the foundations of early modern astronomy. John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852-1926) was a fellow Dane, but he spent much of his working life in Ireland. When he was...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1108068715

ISBN13:9781108068710

Release Date:February 2014

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:434 Pages

Weight:1.21 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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