Examples of using "Tycho" in a sentence and their english translations:
Tycho discovered a new star.
Tycho had a tame elk.
Tycho Brahe was born in 1546 in Denmark.
Tycho fell in love with Kirsten, a commoner.
Tycho Brahe benefited greatly from King Fredrik's generous support.
Tycho Brahe lost part of his nose in a sword duel.
Tycho Brahe used only a compass and a sextant to observe the stars.
Tycho Brahe was the last major astronomer to work without the aid of a telescope.
In 1597, Tycho Brahe lost the Danish king's support, so he went to Wandsbek in what is today known as Germany.
Tycho Brahe, though of noble decent, married a commoner. Together they had three sons and five daughters.
Tycho Brahe was a favorite of the king of Denmark, King Fredrik II. King Fredrik gave him an island to live on.
All of the instruments Tycho Brahe used to observe the sky were made in his own workshop. He also printed all of his books on his own presses.
Tycho Brahe was the nephew of Jorges Brahe, a sailor who gave his life in an effort to save the life of King Fredrik II of Denmark.
Over a 20 year period of time, Tycho Brahe made consistent observations which supported the heliocentric theory proposed earlier by Copernicus. These observations were made using only a compass and a sextant.
In 1600, Tycho Brahe hired Johannes Kepler as his assistant. In later years, Kepler would use Brahe's work as the basis for the laws of planetary movement which he developed.
One night in 1572, Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe saw what he thought was a brilliant new star in the constellation Cassiopeia. (We now know he was observing a supernova.) In 1604, a second supernova was observed. These discoveries caused scientists to seriously question Ptolemy's theory that all stars were contained in an outermost sphere of the universe that never changed.