Gianna Mele-Madigan Mr. Corso Astronomy - Period 6 16 January 2018 Tycho Brahe was a Danish astronomer and writer in the 1500s who had a huge impact on science and astronomy. He was an important astronomer and his observations became the foundation for a new understanding of the solar system and gravity. He challenged the prevailing belief in how the universe was organized. While most people may think that all scientists are boring academic types, Brahe’s lively discoveries, contributions, and theories to science were innovated. Brahe was born into a highly aristocratic and very wealthy family. He was the eldest son of Otto Brahe and Beatte Bille and both of his parents’ families were members of the high nobility of Denmark. He had …show more content…
In fact his lunar theory was by far his best ever devised, and he produced a lot of data for the star catalog that had ever had been complied. Some main reasons for this lunar theory was the introduction of equant motion for the first inequality in order to separate the determination of direction and distance and a more accurate limit for the second inequality although requiring a more complex calculation (Swerdlow Paragraph 1). He had outstanding and rigorous observations that enabled his one assistant, named Johannes Kepler, to discover that the plants move around the sun in elliptical …show more content…
There, Brahe built an enormous observatory, where he kept meticulous observations of the heavens and to keep a closer watch celestial events . While most astronomers only focused on observing heavenly bodies at specific, unusual points in their orbits, Brahe intently tracked them in their entire visible orbit across the sky, creating the most precise observations made at the time. Some of his measurements were accurate to half an arc minute, which is especially admirable given that they were all made before the advent of the telescope. Although Brahe's observations revealed the flaws of the current system, he did not embrace Nicolaus Copernicus' newly proposed sun-centered model. Instead, he offered a model that combined the two, setting the moon and sun in orbit around the Earth even as the other five known planets circled the sun. The model became popular among those who wanted to leave the older view behind but weren't ready to embrace the idea of the sun at the center of the solar system (Tycho Brahe Biography, Paragraph 15). Tycho and his assistant corrected almost every known astronomical record . A man named Uraniborg who also fulfilled the hopes of being Tycho's friend, encouraged Brahe to establish a printing shop to print and combine his documents his own kids. Later on in Tycho Brahe’s life he moved he was able to