Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe made the most accurate celestial observations of his time and challenged the prevailing belief in how the universe was organized. And while most people may think of ...

Brahe's mansion, Uraniborg, was located on an island in Sweden. His basement laboratory is represented by the bottom left room in this drawing. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Tycho Brahe ...

Scientists found tungsten in Tycho Brahe's lab, and they're not sure how it got there. A chemical mystery lurks in the laboratory of Tycho Brahe, one of the most famous astronomers of all time.

It turns out that Tycho Brahe, mostly known for his study of astronomy, had his own basement laboratory for mixing medicines—including some particular elements. Brahe’s famed observatory ...

Tycho Brahe, an astronomer, studied alchemy to help make medical elixirs. Researchers found traces of tungsten in shards of glass and ceramic from his laboratory. Tungsten wouldn't be isolated for ...

Researchers performing chemical analyses of pottery and glass shards recovered from the laboratory of Danish astronomer and alchemist Tycho Brahe, have found concentrations of nickel, copper ...

Tycho Brahe is best known as a Danish Renaissance astronomer. But he was also a bit of an alchemist, and a first-ever analysis on shards found at his former home from the 1500s has shed some light ...

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A chemical mystery lurks in the laboratory of Tycho Brahe, one of the most famous astronomers of all time. Tycho Brahe (1546-1603) was a pioneering Danish astronomy instruments enthusiast in the ...