One of history's leading 16th-century astronomers, Tycho Brahe, was also an alchemist who kept the secrets of that pursuit under wraps. Researchers previously found that Brahe regularly consumed gold ...

Renowned for his groundbreaking work in astronomy, Tycho Brahe also harbored a lesser-known interest in alchemy. Recent findings from an archaeological dig on the island of Ven, where Brahe's ...

Sixteenth-century Europe was a place of great change. Religious upheaval swept the continent, empires expanded and the mystic ...

Ah, lovely serendipity abounds! Reading about nose blindness led to researching Tycho Brahe’s golden nose and wound up exposing a lot about toilet paper. “What Is Nose Blindness and How Can It ...

The sun, planets and constellations are seen orbiting the Earth, but in the lower right hand corner, Cellarius does acknowledge an alternative theory: Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe’s model ...

Far from it! Though three hundred years have elapsed since the death of Tycho Brahe, and the scientific world has only recently joined in celebrating worthily his immortal memory, it appears that ...

Kepler's empirical laws of the motion of the planets, based on Tycho Brahe's observations, were already enunciated, and demanded an interpretation.* These laws gave a complete answer to the ...

Discover the giant legacy of the Renaissance period astronomers Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe in Prague, the city of a hundred spires, where astronomy, maths, music and art connect. Accompanied ...

The artifact likely belonged to the Picts, who occupied a large settlement in what is now the town of Burghead Sonja Anderson On September 11, 1297, the warrior vanquished the superior armies of ...

Scientists have created "a form of information immortality" meant to instruct future species on how to recreate humans. But who, or what, will find it? Margherita Bassi Scientists continue to ...

Johannes Kepler’s laws of planetary motion were based on data collected by Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe. James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the double helical structure of DNA ...