Tycho Brahe had a great reverence for Copernicus, but he did not accept his planetary system; and he fe lt that advance in astronomy depended on painstaking observation. 李贝.西洋科学史.
On either side are represented as hanging small pictures of Tycho's patron, Frederick II of Denmark (d. 李贝.西洋科学史.
By this time great astronomers like Tycho Brahe and Valherius had divided the time-recording dials into minutes and seconds. 威廉·亨利·杜利特.世纪发明.
Then other instruments and rooms of the observatory are pictured; Tycho's stud ents, of whom there were always at least six or eight, not to mention younger pupils. 李贝.西洋科学史.
The author had a consciousness of his own worth, and deserves the name Tycho the Magnificent. 李贝.西洋科学史.
Finally comes one of Tycho's hunting dogs--very faithful and sagacious; he serves here as a hieroglyph of his master's nobility as well as of sagacity and fidelity. 李贝.西洋科学史.
One of the greatest contributors to this advance was the celebrated Danish astronomer, Tycho Brahe (154 6-1601). 李贝.西洋科学史.
Over his head is an automatic celestial globe invented by Tycho and constructed at his own expense in 1 590. 李贝.西洋科学史.
Then there is pictured Tycho's chemical laboratory, on which he has expended much money. 李贝.西洋科学史.
The expert architect and the two artists who assisted Tycho are delineated in the landscape and even in the setting sun in the top-most part of the painting, and in the decoration above. 李贝.西洋科学史.
Over the globe is a part of Tycho's library. 李贝.西洋科学史.
Lest any space on the wall should lie empty a number of paintings were added: Tycho himself in an easy attitude seated at a table and directing from a book the work of his students. 李贝.西洋科学史.