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Born December 14, 1546 • Denmark
Died October 24, 1601 (aged 54) • Prague
Notable Works “De nova stella”
Subjects Of Study Cassiopeia • Tycho’s Nova • Tychonic system • star • measurement
Role In Scientific Revolution

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Painting of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe wearing a black robe with a white ruffled collar and a gold chain necklace with a large pendant.
plan of Uraniborg
elevation and plan of Uraniborg
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe's model of Saturn's motion
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Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
German astronomer
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Claude-Louis Mathieu
French astronomer and mathematician
Hertzsprung, c. 1930
Ejnar Hertzsprung
Danish astronomer
Longomontanus, Christian
Christian Longomontanus
Danish astronomer
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
German astronomer
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus
Polish astronomer
Engraving of six astronomers, with Hipparchus seated at center and, from left to right, Galileo, Johannes Hevelius, Tycho Brahe, Nicolaus Copernicus, and Ptolemy standing, each holding scientific instruments.
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
William Herschel
William Herschel
British-German astronomer
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens
Dutch scientist and mathematician
Arthur Stanley Eddington.
Arthur Eddington
British scientist
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Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
Zach, Franz Xaver, Freiherr von
Franz Xaver von Zach
German-Hungarian astronomer
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
British-born American astronomer
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
Jean-Sylvain Bailly
French astronomer
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Otto Struve
American astronomer
Karl Schwarzschild
Karl Schwarzschild
German astronomer
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Gerard Peter Kuiper
American astronomer
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Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming
American astronomer
Otto Heckmann at the European Southern Observatory's (ESO's) one-metre Schmidt telescope at La Silla, Chile, 1971.
Otto Heckmann
German astronomer

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