Brahe

Brahe’s observatory: the curved scale is a quadrant for measuring elevations
That is built in the wall; inside it is a ‘trompe l’oeil’ section of Brahe’s observatory With a giant figure of Brahe himself. The image comes from the 1598 painting
Of his ‘Astronomiae instauratae mchanica.’ In the painting above the
Quadrant was done in 1587 by Hans Knieper, Hans van Steenwinckel the Edler
And Tobias Gemperle, who were responsible, respectively, for the painting of
The landscape at the top, the three pairs of arches representing the three
Areas Uraniborg and the portrait of Brahe.

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Dinesh ^club

In the case of Brahe’s observations of the nova and the 1577 comet the data was an absence of diurnal parallax, the phenomena that needed to be explained was that these new bodies were in the supralunary and not the sublunary world, and the immediate theoretical conclusion that resulted was that there was change in the heavens. What tied data, phenomena and theory together was a geometrical argument (that if there was no observable parallax, the new bodies must be much further away than the moon) which was unbreakable, providing the initial observations were reliable. This was not true in the case where diurnal parallax was observed; as we have seen, refraction might make it possible to open up a gap between data and phenomena, and even if Brahe’s measurements of Mars’s parallax had been correct, they would not have helped decide between his cosmology and that of Copernicus. But in the case of nova of 1572, and the comet of 1577 the data necessitated the phenomenon, and the phenomenon falsified the established theory ~ Page 195

3 years ago. Edited 22 months ago.

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