Tycho Brahe
14 December 1546 – 24 October 1601
Danish astronomer whose naked-eye observations were the most accurate of his age and provided the data from which Kepler derived his laws of planetary motion.
Lived at the same time
Well-documented people whose lives overlapped with Tycho Brahe.
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- William Byrd (1540–1623) Overlapped 55 years →
- Elizabeth I (1533–1603) Overlapped 55 years →
Life events
Birth
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Lost part of his nose in a duel
29 December 1566
He wore a prosthetic nose of metal for the rest of his life.
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Achievement
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Founded the Uraniborg observatory on the island of Hven
1576
Career
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Moved to Prague as imperial mathematician to Rudolf II
1599
Relocation
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Death
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