Tycho Brahe & 1677 Tycho Brahe Asteroid - Prague, Czech Republic
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Tycho Brahe (14 December 1546 – 24 October 1601), born Tyge Ottesen Brahe, was a Danish nobleman known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations.
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Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 10/19/2013
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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 and alchemist.
As an astronomer, Tycho worked to combine what he saw as the geometrical benefits of the Copernican system with the philosophical benefits of the Ptolemaic system into his own model of the universe, the Tychonic system.
After disagreements with the new Danish king Christian IV in 1597, he was invited by the Bohemian king and Holy Roman emperor Rudolph II to Prague, where he became the official imperial astronomer. He built the new observatory at Benátky nad Jizerou. Here, from 1600 until his death in 1601, he was assisted by Johannes Kepler who later used Tycho's astronomical data to develop his three laws of planetary motion.
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The plaque is located in front of Johannes Kepler Grammar School.
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CZ: V této škole na nádvorí jsou zbytky renaissancního domu. V nem od cervna 1599 bydlil se svou rodinou dánský hvezdár Tycho Brahe. V nem spolu s nemeckým hvezdárem Janem Keplerem konal vedecká pozorování, v nem dne 24. ríjna 1601 zemrel.
EN: In the courtyard of this school are the remains of Renaissance house. Since June 1599, the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe lived here with his family. Tycho Brahe and a German astronomer Jan Kepler carried out here a scientific observation.
1677 Tycho Brahe Asteroid is a main-belt asteroid.
Discovered by: Y. Väisälä
Date of discovery: 6. 9. 1940
Place of discovery: Turku, Finland