The Lord of Uraniborg: A Biography of Tycho Brahe.

Scandinavian Studies | June 22, 1993| | Copyright

Evictor E. Thoren. Cambridge UP, 1990. Pp. 523.

Tycho Brahe was not just another sixteenth-century Danish nobleman. He was an astronomer, an alchemist, and a poet--a Renaissance man in Reformation Denmark. But a nobleman he was, born into the high aristocracy that owned much of the land and ruled the people, and this fact dominated every aspect of his life. Unlike his aristocratic peers, Tycho did not wish to lead armies or to manage the affairs of the lesser world of the Danish state. Instead, he sought dominion over the greater world, nature itself, through ...

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