Brahe

bra, Tycho (1546-1601), a celebrated Danish astronomer; a student at Copenhagen, Leipsic, and Augsburg. King Frederick II granted Tycho an island on which he built the finest observatory in Europe. He rejected the Copernican system. He held to the idea of the earth as the center about which the sun and stars revolve, but he did have the other planets revolve about the sun. Tycho was industrious. He catalogued 777 stars and recorded the movements of Mars for years. After the king's death Tycho was neglected, and then so persecuted that he went to Germany and entered upon a professorship at Prague where he was joined by his successor Kepler. He was a wonderfully inventive man. An extinct crater on the moon has been named Tycho Brahe in honor of this astronomer. See Copernicus; Astronomy