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Johannes Kepler’s laws of planetary motion were based on data collected by Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double helical structure of DNA ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Celestial Palace of Tycho Brahe ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 204 No. 2 (February 1961), p. 118 doi:10.1038 ...

The island was under Danish rule until 1658. It is mainly know as the site where the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe made his internationally acclaimed observations in the years 1576-1597.