Tycho Brahe Quotes


May I not seem to have lived in vain.


Citations

Kepler, Johannes. Diary entry, 1601. Quoted in J.L.E. Dreyer, Tycho Brahe: A Picture of Scientific Life and Work in the Sixteenth Century, Adam and Charles Black, 1890, p. 309.

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Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe
  • Born: December 14, 1546
  • Died: October 24, 1601
  • Nationality: Danish
  • Profession: Nobleman, Astronomer, Writer

Tycho Brahe was a Danish nobleman, astronomer, and writer known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical observations. He was born in the then-Danish peninsula of Scania. Tycho was well known in his lifetime as an astronomer, astrologer, and alchemist. He has been described as "the first competent mind in modern astronomy to feel ardently the passion for exact empirical facts". Most of his observations were more accurate than the best available observations at the time.