Tycho Brahe and the Measure of the Heavens

by John Robert Christianson

The Danish aristocrat and astronomer Tycho Brahe personified the inventive vitality of Renaissance life in the sixteenth century. Brahe lost his nose in a student duel, wrote Latin poetry, and built one of the most astonishing villas of the late Renaissance, while virtually inventing team research and establishing the fundamental rules of empirical science. His observatory at Uraniborg functioned as a satellite to Hamlet's castle of Kronborg until...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789142342
• ISBN13: 9781789142341
• Release Date: August 2020
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.6"