Tiho Brahe

Tiho Brahe studied carefully the movement of the Moon and discovered two inequalities in it. Observing the comets for many years, he reached the conclusion that they are celestial bodies, situated further from the Moon. He observed a new star in Casiopeq. Brahe also created the very useful for their time tables for diffraction and light reflection.

When the Dutch king gave no more money for the maintenance of the observatory, Tiho Brahe went to Prague. Here he teamed up with Iohan Kepler, who inherited after the death of Tiho Brahe the invaluable results of his years-long astronomical observations and calculations. On their ground and especially on the ground of the materials about the rotation of Mars, Kepler discovered the planetary motion laws, which became the basis of theoretical astronomy.

A statue of Tiho Brahe built on the request of Kepler

A wall quadrant in the observatory Yraniborg. Tiho Brahe himself makes astronomical observations

Tiho Brahe in his astronomical observations

The observatory of Tiho Brahe- Yraniborg, built on the island of Hewn, which was equipped with the most modern for its time appliances.

An overview of the Observatory Yraniborg of Tiho Brahe.