Novelist Joshua Gilder (Ghost Image) and his wife, former TV producer and investigative reporter Anne-Lee Gilder, offer a startling twist on the story of the troubled relationship of Tycho Brahe and ...

A statue of Brahe and Kepler in Prague. Prague was also the last place, the grave of Brahe is still in the old town of Prague Church of Our Lady before Týn It is in Tycho Brahe, who observed and ...

Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler were both obsessed with the heavens, but otherwise had little in common. Tycho -- like Galileo, he is often remembered by his first name -- was the greatest astronomer ...

The story of how Copernicus replaced the prevailing geocentric view of the universe with his heliocentric model is a familiar one. Less familiar are Tycho Brahe's contributions to astronomy and his ...

Science has many colorful figures, but nobody quite like Tycho Brahe. Beyond his astronomy genius, he lost his nose in a math-fueled duel, possibly inspired Shakespeare to write Hamlet, and maybe made ...

PRAGUE — Some contend it was a crime of passion committed by a jealous king. Others insist it was murder inspired by professional rivalry between two celebrated astronomers. Or maybe it was a death by ...

PRAGUE (Reuters Life!) - Was it accidental poison or murder most foul? Could it have been a sudden illness or the dark result of envy among two of history's greatest astronomers? Czech and Danish ...