- published: 12 Jun 2014
- views: 112601
Tycho Brahe (14 December 1546 – 24 October 1601), born Tyge Ottesen Brahe, was a Danish nobleman known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations. Coming from Scania, then part of Denmark, now part of modern-day Sweden, Tycho was well known in his lifetime as an astronomer and alchemist.
In his De nova stella (On the new star) of 1573, he refuted the Aristotelian belief in an unchanging celestial realm. His precise measurements indicated that "new stars" (novae or also now known as supernovae), in particular that of 1572, lacked the parallax expected in sub-lunar phenomena, and were therefore not "atmospheric" tail-less comets as previously believed, but occurred above the atmosphere and moon. Using similar measurements he showed that comets were also not atmospheric phenomena, as previously thought, and must pass through the supposed "immutable" celestial spheres.
Tycho Brahe was granted an estate on the island of Hven and the funding to build the Uraniborg, an early research institute, where he built large astronomical instruments and took many careful measurements, and later Stjerneborg, underground, when he discovered that his instruments in the former were not sufficiently steady. Something of an autocrat on the island he nevertheless founded manufactories such as paper-making to provide material for printing his results. After disagreements with the new Danish king in 1597, he was invited by the Bohemian king and Holy Roman emperor Rudolph II to Prague, where he became the official imperial astronomer. He built the new observatory at Benátky nad Jizerou. Here, from 1600 until his death in 1601, he was assisted by Johannes Kepler. Kepler later used Tycho's astronomical results to develop his own theories of astronomy.
Brahe (originally Bragde) is the name of a Scanian noble family that was influential in both Danish and Swedish history but has its family roots in Swedish origin. The first member of the family is speculated to have been Verner Braghde from Halland. Better documented is Peder Axelsen Brahe who appears in late 14th century records. He fathered two sons, Thorkild and Axel Axel Pedersen Brahe. What later became the Danish branch descended from Axel and what later became the Swedish, descended from Thorkild's daughter, Johanna Torkildsdotter Brahe.
Per Brahe was in 1561 granted dignity as a count by Eric XIV of Sweden and in 1620 was the family introduced on the Swedish House of Knights (Riddarhuset) as the first counts.
Johannes Kepler (German pronunciation: [ˈkʰɛplɐ]; December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630) was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. A key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution, he is best known for his eponymous laws of planetary motion, codified by later astronomers, based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi, and Epitome of Copernican Astronomy. These works also provided one of the foundations for Isaac Newton's theory of universal gravitation.
During his career, Kepler was a mathematics teacher at a seminary school in Graz, Austria, where he became an associate of Prince Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg. Later he became an assistant to astronomer Tycho Brahe, and eventually the imperial mathematician to Emperor Rudolf II and his two successors Matthias and Ferdinand II. He was also a mathematics teacher in Linz, Austria, and an adviser to General Wallenstein. Additionally, he did fundamental work in the field of optics, invented an improved version of the refracting telescope (the Keplerian Telescope), and mentioned the telescopic discoveries of his contemporary Galileo Galilei.
Tycho Brahe, the scandalous astronomer - Dan Wenkel
Great Minds: Tycho Brahe, the Astronomer With a Pet Elk
Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler and Planetary Motion
Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler and Planetary Motion(1/2)
TYCHO BRAHE Says No Spheres No Parallax No Planets - All Lies
Badasses In The History of Science: Tycho Brahe
Science in Seconds - Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe -Lars Lillholt Band
Tycho Brahe vs. Johannes Kepler - Science History Battle Rap
Tycho Brahe y Johannes Kepler
Tycho Brahe's Life and Death - by Ian Morison, Gresham Professor of Astronomy
Carl Sagan on Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler, and ellipses
Actors: Nicolas Bro (actor), Rasmus Botoft (actor), Lars Ranthe (actor), Lisbeth Wulff (actress), Thomas Ravn (editor), Lisbeth Jessen (writer), Lisbeth Jessen (director), Mette Frank (actress),
Genres: Documentary,Actors: Ryan Junell (producer), Ryan Junell (editor), Ryan Junell (director), Ryan Junell (writer), Ryan Junell (actor), Brian L. Perkins (actor), David Cerf (actor), Erin Bradley (actress), M.C. Schmidt (actor), Angie Hile (actress), Lesser J. (actor), Sagan (composer), Lance Grabmiller (actor), Wobbly (actor), Drew Daniel (actor),
Plot: Unseen Forces (2004) is a hilarious sequence of vignettes from the history of science to Sagan's music. Sidestepping any expectations of high falutin' experimental art video in favor of slapstick narrative, these wryly subtitled re-enactments of important historical breakthroughs come off as a weird hybrid of Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" and Led Zeppelin's "The Song Remains the Same". Commencing with a turtlenecked Carl Sagan lookalike invoking the sun, Junell's film proceeds to romp anachronistically across history in a playful homage to "Cosmos": The Big Bang is restaged by a flashlight-wielding modern dance troupe (played by real life astronomy buffs recruited online), whose cosmic choreography goes largely unnoticed by their glib, uncomprehending audience. The Greek Rationalist discovery that air is a substance is refigured as a gay pick up technique in an ice cream parlour, with Matmos' M. C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel playing Empedocles and Pausanias. In the final scene, married couple Blevin Blectum and J Lesser re-enact the courtship of the Curies and their discovery of radiation as a Jerry Lewis-style tragicomedy.
Keywords: cosmos, logic, reason, scienceActors: Damon Stout (composer), Jon Huffman (actor), Ernie Rowland (actor), Richard Arthur (actor), Jim Stump (actor), Stephen Jutras (actor), Steve Ratcliff Jr. (actor), George Fee (actor), Mark Yungblut (actor), Emma Carlson-Berne (actress), Jeff Horick (actor), Marc Epplenhill (actor), Liam Helmes (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Günter Junghans (actor), Thomas Langhoff (actor), Gerd Ehlers (actor), Reimar J. Baur (actor), Rolf Hoppe (actor), Erik S. Klein (actor), Kurt Böwe (actor), Dieter Franke (actor), Carl Heinz Choynski (actor), Michael Gerber (actor), Fred Delmare (actor), Hannjo Hasse (actor), Wolfgang Greese (actor), Werner Dissel (actor), Jörg Panknin (actor),
Genres: Drama,This dislocation I feelIs so very real
The soup of the day
Is losing appeal
But was it something I said
Or something you ate?
The service 'round here
Is so second rate
The hunger is gone
The hour is late
If heaven is here
Then heaven can wait
I'm driving you home
And you're such a tease
You're pleasure retarded
You do as you please
Travestites are made of this
I look in your eyes
There is something amiss
Travestites are made of this
I look in your eyes
You're a stranger to kiss
I look in your eyes