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On Tycho's Island
by John Robert Christianson
- BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
- 2002
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- 384 PAGES
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Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) was an outlandish figure among early European astronomers, what with his prosthetic golden nose (he lost his real nose while duelling to defend his claim that he was a great mathematician), his close relations with the Danish monarch and his private laboratory island where he observed the heavens. This scholarly work brings to life the man, his island and his age.
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