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2	Who was Tycho Brahe and why should you care?
3	The Tychonic World System
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5	Tycho goes to the university At the age of 13, Tycho was sent to the University of Copenhagen to study philosophy and rhetorics. A solar eclipse 1560 awoke his interest in astronomy, and he began reading books on the subject. He attended the universities of Leipzig, Wittenberg, Rostock and Basel to study law, humanities and science. In Leipzig he started astronomical studies without permission, but was soon forgiven after demonstrating successes. He found that old observations were very inaccurate, and started to design methods and instruments for high-precision measurement of positions of celestial bodies.
6	Tycho was a famous astronomer
7	Tycho and his nose!!
8	Tycho Brahe's Castle
9	Tycho’s Gardens
10	Tyco’s Observatory
11	The Observatory Layout
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13	Wall Quadrant Big Globe
14	Tycho’s strange death
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