Brahe

[ brah, brah-hee; Danish brah-e ]

noun

1. Ty·cho [tee, -koh, ty, -koh], 1546–1601, Danish astronomer.

Brahe

/ brɑː; ˈbraːə; ˈbrɑːhɪ /

noun

1. BraheTycho15461601MDanishSCIENCE: astronomer Tycho (ˈtyːço). 1546–1601, Danish astronomer, who designed and constructed instruments that he used to plot accurately the positions of the planets, sun, moon, and stars

Brahe

/ brä,brä′hē /

1. 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

Strictly speaking, Brahe and Kepler weren’t quite the last mystics—but they certainly were, in astronomy at least, transitional figures between the mysticism of the Ancients and the science of Galileo and his successors.

From Literature

On the evening of 11 November 1571, soon after sunset, a young Danish nobleman called Tycho Brahe was looking at the night sky.

From Literature

In 1572 a Danish astronomer named Tycho Brahe noticed a new star in the constellation Cassiopeia.

From Scientific American

Graduates of St. John’s commissioned a functioning replica using Brahe’s original drawings and illustrations.

From Seattle Times

A half-millennium later, when a “new and unusual” star briefly appeared in the constellation Cassiopeia, Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe proclaimed it “a miracle.”

From Washington Post