Two years after Tycho Brahe was exhumed from his grave in Prague, chemical analyses of his corpse show that mercury poisoning did not kill the prolific 16th-century astronomer. The results should put ...

Two years after Tycho Brahe was exhumed from his grave in Prague, chemical analyses of his corpse show that mercury poisoning did not kill the prolific 16th-century astronomer. The results should put ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A portrait of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, ca. 1590, overlaid on one of his diagrams of the sky ...

Scientists have a reputation for being boring and nerdy, but this astronomer smashed through these stereotypes. Tycho Brahe lived a life as large as the universe. From its privileged beginning to its ...

Tycho Brahe, an astronomer, studied alchemy to help make medical elixirs. Researchers found traces of tungsten in shards of glass and ceramic from his laboratory. Tungsten wouldn't be isolated for ...

Researchers performing chemical analyses of pottery and glass shards recovered from the laboratory of Danish astronomer and alchemist Tycho Brahe, have found concentrations of nickel, copper, mercury, ...

Silence is golden, the saying goes. But so, evidently, was the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, according to a recent study. Brahe, who was born in 1546 and died in 1601, was a keen observer of the ...

Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe made the most accurate celestial observations of his time and challenged the prevailing belief in how the universe was organized. And while most people may think of ...

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Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) might quite possibly hold the distinction of history's most eccentric astronomer. His scientific accomplishments include the discovery of the supernova in 1572 and a series of ...