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Brahe
[ brah, brah-hee; Danish brah-e ]
noun
- 罢测路肠丑辞 [tee, -koh, ty, -koh], 1546鈥1601, Danish astronomer.
Brahe
/ br蓱藧; 藞bra藧蓹; 藞br蓱藧h瑟 /
noun
- BraheTycho15461601MDanishSCIENCE: astronomer Tycho (藞ty藧莽o). 1546鈥1601, Danish astronomer, who designed and constructed instruments that he used to plot accurately the positions of the planets, sun, moon, and stars
Brahe
- Danish astronomer who made the most accurate and extensive observations of the planets and stars before the telescope was invented. Brahe determined the position of 777 stars, demonstrated that comets follow regular paths, and observed the supernova of 1572, which became known as Tycho's star. Although Brahe did not accept the Copernican heliocentric model of the solar system, his careful observations allowed Johannes Kepler to prove that Copernicus was essentially correct.
Example Sentences
Thomas also studied the heavens himself, and made observations of a supernova seen in 1572, some of which were used by Tycho Brahe in his analysis of that event.
In astronomy, this process really gets under way with Tycho Brahe; in physics, with Pascal.
In 1572 a Danish astronomer named Tycho Brahe noticed a new star in the constellation Cassiopeia.
Graduates of St. John鈥檚 commissioned a functioning replica using Brahe鈥檚 original drawings and illustrations.
A half-millennium later, when a 鈥渘ew and unusual鈥 star briefly appeared in the constellation Cassiopeia, Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe proclaimed it 鈥渁 miracle.鈥
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