Hven’s Gate
J.L. Heilbron: Tycho Brahe, 2 November 2000
On Tycho’s Island: Tycho Brahe and His Assistants, 1570-1601
by John Robert Christianson.
Cambridge, 451 pp., £30, March 2000,9780521650816 Show More
by John Robert Christianson.
Cambridge, 451 pp., £30, March 2000,
“... How the Danish nobleman Brahe or, rather, Tycho – his fame was so great in his time that, like Dante and Galileo, he is known in ours by his first name – came to expire of a burst bladder in Prague is explained, along with much else, by John Robert Christianson. The centre of gravity of Tycho’s Island is Danish social history: in irresistible ... ”