Tyco Brahe

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Tyco Brahe

• By Nicole Busa and Katie Nickerson

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?Loca Vida!

• Born December 14, 1546
• Died October 24, 1601
• Country of Birth Denmark

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Geocentric Model

• The geocentric model of our solar system is
  constructed of a series of planets and the sun
  that orbit the Earth which is the center.
• Tyco believed the geocentric model was correct in
  that he thought that the Earth was too slow to be
  in constant motion orbiting the sun. This
  resulted in him believing the Earth was the
  center of our solar system.

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Heliocentric Model

• The Heliocentric Model contains the sun in the
  middle of our solar system, and the rest of the
  planets orbit around it.
• Tyco believed that this model was correct,
  because he thought that the planets orbited the
  sun. In his case though, all of them except for
  the Earth.

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Tycos Final Model

• His final model (now known as Tycoism) consisted
  of the five planets orbiting the sun, and the sun
  orbiting the Earth. This model is also known as
  the geo-heliocentric model which was originally
  proposed by Heraclides not Tyco.

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Supernova

• He discovered the first supernova- the SN 1572.
  At first he thought it was a planet, but later
  saw that it was not moving. He concluded that it
  was a fixed star and described it as nova. Then
  later he wrote a book call the De nova stella.

The Remnants of the SN-1572
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Comets

• He made prediction charts about births, weather,
  and astronomical events. One of these was the
  comet of 1577.
• He also proved that comets were not in our or any
  other planets atmosphere, but actually in space
  itself.

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Why important?

• His discoveries about comets and supernovae were
  important because they proved, contrary to the
  beliefs at the time, that space was not fixed
  or unchanging, but that objects moved throughout
  it. This was a new idea.

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Mind Blowing Facts

• His discovery of the supernova influenced Edgar
  Allan Poes poem Al Aaraaf.
• The King of Denmark and Norway, King Frederick
  II, offered Tyco an island Hven (a small island
  located on the strait between Denmark and
  Sweden.) and funding to build an observatory for
  him there. He ended up taking this offer.
• He became the imperial astronomer when he moved
  to Prague in 1597 invited by the Holy Roman
  emperor Rudolph II.
• When Tyco was 20, studying at the University of
  Rostock in Germany, he got part of his nose cut
  off in a duel with another nobleman, Manderup
  Parsbjerg. He later got a replacement made of
  gold and silver. This is what influenced his
  curiosity in medicine and alchemy.

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AMAZING ANIMATIONS!!
Solar System
This is the model of our solar system that Tyco
did not believe was correct.
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Bibliography

• - wikipedia
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe