noun
Danish astronomer whose observations of the planets provided the basis for Kepler's laws of planetary motion (1546-1601)
• Syn: ↑Tycho Brahe
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑astronomer, ↑uranologist, ↑stargazer
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/brah, brah"hee/; Dan. /brddah"e/, n.
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['bräˌhē]Tycho (1546 - 1601), Danish astronomer. He built an observatory equipped with precision instruments, but despite demonstrating that comets follow sun-centered paths, he adhered to a geocentric system of planetary motions
Useful english dictionary. 2012.