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On Tycho's Island: Tycho Brahe and his Assistants, 1570-1601
by John Robert Christianson
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... INTRODUCTION T HIS BOOK IS ABOUT POWER. It shows how one man, Tycho Brahe, used his powerful position to bend the lives of hundreds of others toward a goal that he deemed important: a ... "
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Tycho Brahe, King Frederick, Sophie Brahe, King Christian, University of Copenhagen, Erik Lange, former famuli, stipendium regium, observational manuscripts, trigonal sextant, other famuli, great celestial globe
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On Tycho's Island: Tycho Brahe, Science, and Culture in the Sixteenth Century
by John Robert Christianson
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... INTRODUCTION T HIS BOOK Is ABOUT POWER. It shows how one man, Tycho Brahe, used his powerful position to bend the lives of hundreds of others toward a goal that he deemed important: a ... "
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Tycho Brahe, King Frederick, Sophie Brahe, King Christian, Erik Lange, University of Copenhagen, former famuli, observational manuscripts, stipendium regium, instavratm mechanica, trigonal sextant, steel sextant
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History: Fiction or Science? Astronomical methods as applied to chronology. Ptolemy's Almagest. Chronology III
by Dr Anatoly T. Fomenko et al
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... old catalogues are compiled in ecliptic coordinates, be it Ptolemy's Al- magest or the catalogues of As-Sufi, Ulugbek, Coper- nicus, Tycho Brahe etc. Let us assume that the modern equatorial coordi- nates of a star in a catalogue (such as [ 1197]) ... "
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... publiés, un demi- siècle auparavant par l'astronome prussien Nicolas Copernic, une description élogieuse des instruments que l'illustre astro- nome danois, Tycho Brahe, ... "
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David Gans, Tycho Brahe, Magen David, Isaac Abravanel, Zemah David, Jean Kepler, calendrier juif, science astronomique, conscience juive, messianisme juif, vivant encore, des astronomes
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