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Tycho Brahe
Tycho (1546-1601), despite being a Danish noble, turned to astronomy rather than politics. Granted the island of Hven in 1576 by Frederick II, he established Uraniborg, an observatory containing large, accurate instruments.
Hven tycho brahe biography
His cosmology was geocentric, in opposition to Copernicus.
Tycho Brahe is probably the most famous observational astronomer of the sixteenth-century, although is not always clear whether he is better remembered for the fact that his data provided the basis for the work of Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), or because of the more colourful aspects of his life and death.
Born into the high nobility of his native Denmark in 1546, he was groomed by his family for a career at court, but from an early age showed greater interest in astronomy than law, the discipline of choice for aspiring royal councillors and administrators.
After three years at the University of Copenhagen, he spent much of the period from 1562 to 1576 travelling in Germany, studying at the