Tycho Brahe
...nomy with Bartholomew Schultz a who taught him things to help him come up with more accurate observations. In May 1565 Tycho returned home and in the following month his foster father (uncle) Jorgen gave his life by protecting the King. This caused Tycho to draw closer to his real family. His mother took back the responsibility for her young man who was still under the age of 18 years. Otto Brahe, Tycho’s Father, now commanded Helsingborg Castle in the place of his brother. In 1566 Tycho left again, first visiting the University in Wittenberg and then in Rostock. While in Rostock he was involved in an argument with another Danish student that had resulted in a duel, Tycho had part of his nose cut off. The significance of this was that Tycho developed an interest in medicine and alchemy. When he returned home in April 1567, Tycho had had and artifical nose made from silver and gold to attempt to cover up the missing. After returning home Tycho decided to leave again and explore the world some more. First he revisited Rostock, then went to Basel, Freiburg, and Augsburg. Tycho had been working on ways to improve instruments for observing. In Augsburg he designed some of his owe observation interments and was able to obtain a investor to finance the cost of a new instrument. In about a month he had a huge quadrant constructed. It was very accurate, but it was so big that it required a lot of people to support is so only one observation could be made each night. Returning home during 1570 after receiving the word that his father was deathly ill. His father died in May 1571. With the help of his uncle Steeen Bille, Tycho began constructing an observatory in Herrevad Abbey. They also built an alchemy laboratory there since alchemy was becoming a major interest for Tycho. In 1572 he met Kirsten Jorgensdatter, a girl from the town of Knudstrup. Seeing as Tycho was a Nobel and Kirsten was a Commoner, they could not marry legally. Kirsten lived with Tycho as his common law wife. September 1574 Tycho taught on astronomy at the University of Copenhagen, but gave up in the following spring when he received an annual income from his father's estate. He set off on another trip abroad, first visiting Kassel. After leaving Kassel, Tycho visited Frankfurt, Basel and finally Venice before going to Denmark at the end of 1575. About this time he had made the decision to leave Denmark and to settle in Basel, but King Frederick of Denmark did not want to lose his most eminent scientist, so the King made many offers to Tycho to convince him to set up and observatory in Denmark. Still after all the offers that the King made Tycho still turned the King down until the King made an offer that Tycho could not turn down, the island Hven. With the help of the King, Tycho moved his laboratory to and all purpose-built observatory. Tycho named the observatory “Uraniborg”. Uraniborg was equipped with large and accurate instruments and even had an alchemical laboratory in ...