MGMT 1050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Optical Illusion, Radiography, Astronomia Nova
20 Jul 2016
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The alchemist leaned back from the esoteric books on his bench, stretched and th alchemist leaned back from the esoteric books on his bench, stretched looked around. To one side, an assistant was pumping at the bellows, raising the flames that heated a crucible containing a few drops of precious molten metal. To the other, another servant was carefully watching a graceful curved glass alembic, dripping a thin stream of pale yellow fluid. B e l o w though remembered today as a great astronomer, tycho brahe devoted much of his time to alchemy, in an underground laboratory like this depiction by the sixteenth century flemish artist. Johannes stradanus. after truth, not a beggar for his crust as he was for knowledge. The 25-year-old tycho brahe was a clansman of the most powerful families of the day. His relatives controlled the kingdom of denmark - and, to all intents and purposes, controlled the king himself.
