Initially this was the path taken by young Tycho. He received a Latin education and then entered the university to study law. However, when he was a teenager he viewed an eclipse and this set him on a very different path. Tycho was fascinated that such a seemingly random event like an eclipse could be predicted years in advance.
He began his study of astronomy while continuing to study law and eventually concentrated only on astronomy. He learned as much astronomy as he could but discovered that the star charts of the leading astronomers did not agree. He knew that better charts were necessary and was determined to make the most accurate star charts possible.
I consider Tycho Brahe one of the five founders on modern astronomy along with Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo and Newton. He was a well know advocate of science and a skilled and knowledgeable astronomer. For instance, in he discovered a new star in the heavens and wrote a book about its appearance and subsequent disappearance and proved that this new star was not near the earth but quite far away, near the other stars.
Tycho also studied the comet of and proved that the comet was beyond the moon and Venus. This was very different from the accepted view that comets were very near the earth. The emperor hired Tycho to write his personal horoscopes and to determine more accurate planetary positions so the emperor could have a more precise horoscope. So, in this instance it was astrology that pushed astronomy forward. In addition, Tycho do one other thing that links him to the founders of modern astronomy.
In he hired a 28 year old German school teacher from Austria, Johannes Kepler, to help him solve a problem that had puzzled the best astronomers for over 1, years. Why was it so hard to calculate the past or future positions of the planets?
Tycho was a brilliant man but in one area of astronomy he was very wrong. He was not a Copernican meaning he did not believe in a sun centered world. He believed that the center of all celestial motion was the earth and envisioned a unique but incorrect model of the solar system. For instance Copernicus thought the planets orbited the sun in perfect circles but we now know that planetary orbits are elliptical. What if Tycho had lived another 10 years and died in instead of He would have lived to see Kepler solve the problem of planetary motion.
The book on planetary motion, elliptical orbits and the like, would have been published in or sooner and the author would have been Tycho Brahe with help from Johannes Kepler. Tycho would have cast aside his incorrect model of the solar system and toured Europe telling everyone that he had solved the problem of planetary motion and he, Tycho Brahe, had proven that the Copernican Model was correct. He would have become an ardent and powerful supporter of the sun centered model of the solar system.
The Catholic church would have been forced to modify their long held positions and there would have been no reason to punish Galileo. Alas, this is only a game of speculation because Tycho died in before Kepler was able to solve the puzzle of planetary motion, but I am sure that if Tycho had been alive he would have become a firm supporter of the Copernican model. He may have been a bit overbearing and a difficult man to work for but he was at home in the halls of many European courts and he was a brilliant and talented astronomer with a curious nature and an open mind.
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