Novelist Joshua Gilder (Ghost Image) and his wife, former TV producer and investigative reporter Anne-Lee Gilder, offer a startling twist on the story of the troubled relationship of Tycho Brahe and ...

The story of how Copernicus replaced the prevailing geocentric view of the universe with his heliocentric model is a familiar one. Less familiar are Tycho Brahe's contributions to astronomy and his ...

Those giants of astronomy, Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, were both born in the 1500s. It’s never been clearly established how Tycho died, but there have been suspicions that the younger man, Kepler ...

Just over 400 years ago in Prague, a tempestuous collaboration between two astronomers resulted in the birth of modern science: Tycho Brahe, royal astronomer of the Holy Roman Empire, invited Johannes ...

PRAGUE (Reuters Life!) - Was it accidental poison or murder most foul? Could it have been a sudden illness or the dark result of envy among two of history's greatest astronomers? Czech and Danish ...

An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order Amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of His Mother By James A. Connor. HarperSanFrancisco. 402 pp. $24.95 HEAVENLY INTRIGUE Johannes ...

Astronomer Tycho Brahe had quite the reputation as a partygoer in his youth. He even lost his nose in a duel and wore a gold one the rest of his life. But in 1576, he turned to science. On August 8 of ...

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 put ...

While Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe is best known for his celestial discoveries made in the 16th century — before the invention of the telescope — he was also an alchemist who brewed secret medicines ...

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