It turns out that Tycho Brahe, mostly known for his study of astronomy, had his own basement laboratory for mixing medicines—including some particular elements. Brahe’s famed observatory ...

Portrait of Ulugh Beg – CC 4.0. Ulugh Beg ... star catalogue between those of Ptolemy in Classical Greece and Tycho Brahe. Ulugh Beg later measured another more precise value of the tropical ...

The astronomer Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg, completed in 1580, was a sight to see: a blend of Gothic splendor and utility, with impressive gables and turrets and curved glass windows giving way to ...

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Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Danish jeweller Sophie Bille Brahe is recalling her visit earlier this year to Murano, the small island off ...

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There are few guarantees in life, but a new Tycho album that doesn't disappoint is something you can always bet on. Based in San Francisco, Tycho, a.k.a. Scott Hansen, has been a constant in the ...

A few decades later, the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546 to 1601) recognised that comets were independent celestial bodies: he measured the parallax of the bright comet of 1577 and thereby ...

Brahe's mansion, Uraniborg, was located on an island in Sweden. His basement laboratory is represented by the bottom left room in this drawing. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Tycho Brahe ...

Researchers performing chemical analyses of pottery and glass shards recovered from the laboratory of Danish astronomer and alchemist Tycho Brahe, have found concentrations of nickel, copper ...