What was Tycho Brahe's theory/discovery?

Answer 1

- discovered a new star in 1572 as a result of supernova
- made new instruments much more accurate; up to 1/240 of a degree
- prepared data on the motions of the planets and stars over 20 years
- taught everything to kepler who used his findings and instruments to make his laws.

Brahe was also kidnapped by his uncle and lost his nose in a duel over a mathamatical point. How cool is that? He made himself a silver one.

Answer 2

Tycho Brahe Discoveries

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Tycho's biggest contribution to astronomy was his meticulous record keeping of the orbit of Mars. This data enabled Kepler (his successor) to understand that a planet's orbit is not a perfect circle (Oh! How they loved and clung to the perfect circle!) but an ellipse. This understanding supported the Copernican heliocentric solar system model, mostly because accurate predictions of a planets position could be made.

Answer 5

I want to say Brahe supported a geocentric (Earth-centered) universe. Of course, this has proved to be incorrect, but fortunately for Tycho he made several other important contributions.

For one thing, his observation of a supernova in 1572 (which he called a nova, implying that it was a new star) was a key blow to the idea that the heavens were perfect and unchanging.

But his big contribution was in his observations of the positions of stars and planets. He lived in the years just previous to the invention of the telescope, and so did observations with only his eyes. He is considered as probably the greatest naked eye astronomer of all time as his measurements are basically as accurate as is possible when observing with only your eyes. That he was able to push his observations to such high accuracy is pretty darn impressive.

Moreover, he happened to have as an assistant a man named Johannes Kepler who was very adept at mathematics and who was trying to make an accurate heliocentric (Sun centered or Copernican) model of the solar system. He succeeded thanks to Brahe's observations, particularly those of the orbit of Mars.

Answer 6

Most famous is his relation ship to the father of the univerce Kupernicus and another big atronom Rothman.

In 1589, in a letter for Rothmann he argues for his system about the sun is a star, and thereby saying, that if Copernicus was right, then the stars must be more a hundred times bigger than the sun.

This was huge, remember, first the earth was the center, now the sun became the center, then suddenly, the sun was one of many, and a small one of them .. and the church has a hard time placing the creation in the picture ;-)

This - changing the paradime of the world as the center, was his major archivement.

Answer 7

He was credited as recognizing a supernova (SN 1572), debunking the accepted belief that the cosmos was unchangeable. Also, a lot of his astronomical notes were crucial to Johanes Keplar's calculations in the orbits of the planets. He also was one of the first astronomers to recognize using parallax shifts to determine distances of celestial objects.

Answer 8

In addition to his astronomical work, he discovered that not relieving your bladder when you need to can be very bad for your health!

Answer 9

his discovery was that the earth was center of the the universe, but the planets revolved around the sun