Tycho Brahe : A Picture of Scientific Life and Work in the Sixteenth Century

Name: Tycho Brahe
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108068710
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ISBN: 9781108068710

by John Louis Emil Dreyer

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Library Collection - Astronomy

ISBN-10 1108068715

ISBN-13 9781108068710

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Feb 13th, 2014

Print length 434 Pages

Weight 550 grams

Dimensions 21.60 x 14.00 x 2.50 cms

Product Classification: Astronomy, space & time Astronomy, space and time

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First published in 1890, this biography of the last of the naked-eye astronomers remained definitive for over a century. Dreyer sets out to illuminate not simply the life of his subject, but also the lives and work of Brahe's contemporaries and the progress of science in the sixteenth century.

Famous for his metal prosthetic nose, and for being associated with 'unlucky' days in Scandinavian folklore, Tycho Brahe (1546–1601) made the most accurate naked-eye astronomical measurements of his day. Cataloguing more than 1,000 new stars, his stellar and planetary observations helped lay the foundations of early modern astronomy. John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852–1926) was a fellow Dane, but he spent much of his working life in Ireland. When he was fourteen, he had read a book about Brahe and this inspired him to 'be an astronomer and nothing else'. First published in 1890, Dreyer's biography of his hero remained the definitive work for more than a century. He sets out to illuminate not simply the life of his subject, but also the lives and work of Brahe's contemporaries and the progress of science in the sixteenth century.

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