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Tycho Brahe Tyge (In Latin as Tycho) Brahe was born on December 14, 1546 in Skane, then in Denmark, now in Sweden. He was the first son of Otto Brahe and Beatte Bille, “both from families in the high nobility of Denmark” (Internet source). He was brought up by his uncle Brahe and became his heir. He attended the universities of Copenhagen and Leipzig, and then traveled through the German region, studying further at the universities of …

…The following night, October 24, Tycho was relatively calm; the fever dizziness faded but the sickness had taken so much of his powers that the end came in only a few hours. Tycho became fifty-four years and ten months, a short time thinking of the age he could have achieved, but long taken into account his brilliant scientific achievements, the rumors of which will live, as long as the studies of the stars will fascinate mankind.