Brahe's mansion, Uraniborg, was located on an island in Sweden. His basement laboratory is represented by the bottom left room in this drawing. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Tycho Brahe, a ...

It would have been easy to mistake it for another dense, heavy element: gold. The endless search for better medicine. ... Tycho Brahe, a 16th-century astronomer and alchemist, ...

An Atypical Scientist The 16th-century Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe was one of the most amazing figures in the history of science. Born in 1546 to a noble and wealthy family, Brahe’s passion ...

Archaeology & History Renaissance Alchemist’s Lab Yields Surprising Element. Artifacts from Tycho Brahe's laboratory were found to contain an element not described until 180 years after his death.

Most people know Tycho Brahe as the silver-nose-wearing, elk-owning astronomer that they'd love to drink with. He was also an implacable grudge-holder.

But this merging of theory and experiment was by no means straightforward or easy. The Nobleman and His Housedog recounts the strange and intricate way in which this unusual collaboration came about.

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The story of what’s commonly called Tycho’s supernova began on Nov. 11, 1572, when Brahe saw what he thought was a brilliant new star in the constellation Cassiopeia.