TYCHO BRAHE AND ASTRONOMY by Peter F. Drucker

“But as every book on the history of science stresses, Tycho Brahe, in the sixteenth century, was the first modern astronomer, rather than Kepler or Galileo, and the first systematically to observe the stars and to ‘record the facts.'

While Tycho amassed the facts, however, he was totally wrong about their meaning. Though perhaps the greatest astronomical observer in history and a ‘stellar analyst’ of great acumen and prodigious industry, Tycho clung stoutly to the very theories his own observations showed increasingly to be inappropriate and inadequate.

It took thirty years of hard work until Kepler—himself trained as Tycho’s assistant, that is, as a ‘stellar analyst’—could perceive the new theory.”

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TYCHO BRAHE AND ASTRONOMY by Peter F. Drucker

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