NATS 1745 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Simple Explanation, Uraniborg, Deferent And Epicycle
13 Jul 2014
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The event therefore occurred in the orb of stars, which suggested that the orb of stars is not eternally unchanging: convinced people that copernicus and them were wrong, witnessed a supernova and measured its coordinates while it was visible and saw no motion relevant to the stars, concluded that the stars are not as unchanging as they thought they can possibly be born and possible die, which went against aristotle. The king of denmark granted tycho an island, where he built two elaborate observatories in order to conduct his high precision cataloguing of the celestial bodies: wanted to move to germany to get away from social nonsense so the king bribed him with an island, built a castle which he named uraniborg, very lavish, also had an elaborate observatory which consisted of outdoor observing stations on various balconies here he built the highest precision instruments of his time.
