Brahe

American  

[brah, brah-hee, brah-e] / brɑ, ˈbrɑ hi, ˈbrɑ ɛ /

noun

1. Tycho 1546–1601, Danish astronomer.

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Brahe British  

/ brɑː, ˈbraːə, ˈbrɑːhɪ /

noun

1. 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

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Brahe Scientific  

/ 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.

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Example Sentences

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

From Scientific American • Nov. 17, 2020

Measurements taken by Brahe were accurate enough to challenge fundamental astronomical conceptions and misconceptions and help pave the way for Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity and the laws of motion, Donahue says.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 31, 2019

Four towering sixteenth-century scientists — Nicolaus Copernicus, Tycho Brahe, Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei — discovered heliocentrism at a time of sociopolitical tumult.

From Nature • Dec. 9, 2019

At Hven, Brahe made a continuous record of the positions of the Sun, Moon, and planets for almost 20 years.

From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016

Brahe’s observatory: the curved scale is a quadrant for measuring elevations that is built into the wall; inside it is a trompe I’oeil section of Brahe’s observatory, with a giant figure of Brahe himself.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton