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Strings to the past
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ACROSS BETWEEN A SPANISH GUITAR AND A THE SIXTEENTH-CENTURY VIHUELA IS REVERBERATING IN CONTEMPORARY RECORDINGS AND CONCERTS
On a warm Madrid night in the 1920s, a young Andres Segovia picked up his German-made Hauser guitar and broke four centuries of silence. The music he played had once delighted Ferdinand and Isabella and Emperor Charles V. After being buried under forty decades of dust, the music of the vihuela, a Spanish instrument similar to the guitar, was for the first time being reintroduced to the culture that had created it, celebrated it, and relegated it to obscurity.
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Books: The island of science Rose Tremain on the extraordinary Baltic realm ruled over by the astronomer Tycho Brahe
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; On Tycho's Island: Tycho Brahe and his Assistants 1570-1601...THE LIFE of the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, inventor of the sextant and an...And as King Frederick II summoned Tycho Brahe to analyse the political implications...
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Witchcraft, suspicious death, and planetary orbits.(Heavenly Intrigue: Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder behind One of History's Greatest Scientific Discoveries)(Kepler's Witch: An Astronomer's Discovery of Cosmic Order amid Religious War, Political Intrigue, and the Heresy Trial of his Mother)(Tycho and Kepler: The Unlikely Partnership that Forever Changed Our Understanding of the Heavens)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Queen's Quarterly
; Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler each made an extraordinary...analysis of the root of one of the hairs from Tycho Brahe's mustache and discovered that he had...The data painstakingly collected by Tycho Brahe over many years of celestial observations...
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The Lord of Uraniborg: A Biography of Tycho Brahe.
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Studies
; ...Cambridge UP, 1990. Pp. 523. Tycho Brahe was not just another sixteenth...as a surprise to those who know Tycho Brahe from the history of astronomy to...to this final fruition. Much as Tycho Brahe and his contemporaries sought to...
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Bearing the Heavens: Tycho Brahe and the Astronomical Community of the Late Sixteenth Century.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly
; ...Adam Mosley. Bearing the Heavens: Tycho Brahe and the Astronomical Community of...central role of Bearing the Heavens, Tycho Brahe shoulders the burden of "a latter...century. Yet the weight under which Tycho labors does not consist exclusively...
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Tycho Brahe as a literary figure.
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Studies
; ...first observational astronomer, Tycho Brahe (1546-1601), to have attracted...could even begin with fascination for Brahe's metal nose, which he had to...constantly.(1) But the astronomy of Brahe has been a mutable metaphor for the...
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Spheres of influence.(Heavenly Intrigue: Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder Behind One of History's Greatest Scientific Discoveries)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: National Review
; Heavenly Intrigue: Johannes Kepler, Tycho Brahe, and the Murder Behind One of History's Greatest Scientific...scientific study of the heavens: Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe. Their efforts laid the groundwork for the modern quest...
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On Tycho's Island: Tycho Brahe and His Assistants, 1570-1601
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Review
; On Tycho's Island: Tycho Brahe and His Assistants,1570 -1601...34.95 The Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601 ) was the premier...his private island in Denmark, Tycho Brahe used patronage, printing, friendship...
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Contract killer murdered Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe?
News Wire article from: Asian News International
; ...death of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, Prague scientists are...didn't know how exactly Tycho was killed. I couldn...Swedish diplomat, Erik Brahe," he said. Professor...diplomat to get rid of Tycho, and had him poisoned...
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Tycho Brahe Dovel
Newspaper article from: News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL)
; Tycho Brahe Dovel, 14, of Libertyville, IL, passed...Libertyville resident for most of his life. Tycho was in the 8th grade at Highland Middle...are his parents, Dennis and Barbara (nee Brahe) Dovel, his sister Jamie and brothers...
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Johan Gregor van der Schardt: Bildhauer bei Kaiser Maximilian II., am danischen Hof und bei Tycho Brahe.
Magazine article from: Scandinavian Studies
; ...Nuremberg during the early 1570s. Tycho Brahe made contact with him around 1575...because Aurifaber was not Schardt. Tycho Brahe in a letter of 20 February 1592...of Uraniborg to Schardt, while Tycho Brahe undoubtedly personally worked out...
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