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[[File:Tycho_Brahe.jpg|thumb|Tycho Brahe.  (Portrait 1585/1595.)]]'''Tycho Brahe''' (born '''Tyge Ottesen Brahe'''; 14 December 1546 – 24 October 1601), was a Danish nobleman known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations.

Well known in his lifetime as an astronomer, astrologer and alchemist, he has been described as "the first competent mind in modern astronomy to feel ardently the passion for exact empirical facts."

His observations were some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time.

== In the News ==

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File:Uraniborg main building.jpg|link=Uraniborg (nonfiction)|August 8, 1576: The cornerstone for Tycho Brahe's [[Uraniborg (nonfiction)|Uraniborg observatory]] is laid on the island of Hven.

File:Eclipse.jpg|link=Eclipse (nonfiction)|1560: The occurrence at the predicted time of a solar [[Eclipse (nonfiction)|eclipse]] in Copenhagen turns Tycho Brahe towards a life of observational astronomy.
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== Fiction cross-reference ==

* [[Crimes against astronomical constants]]
* [[Gnomon algorithm]]
* [[Gnomon Chronicles]]

== Nonfiction cross-reference ==

* [[Eclipse (nonfiction)]]
* [[Johannes Kepler (nonfiction)]]
* [[Ole Rømer (nonfiction)]]

External links:

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe Tycho Brahe] @ Wikipedia

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