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| | Biography of Tyge (Tycho) Brahe |
 | | Tyge (Latinized as Tycho) Brahe is one of the great names in astronomical history, a man who made many contributions, some of them quite brilliant, in advancing our knowledge of the Universe, but was overshadowed, after his death, by his failure to accept some of the consequences of his discoveries. |
 | | Otte was one of the members of the Rigsraad, and several members of his mother's family were also members of that body, so he was born into one of the most powerful families of his day. |
 | | One of his uncles, Jörgen Brahe, a very wealthy man in his own right, was childless, and prior to Tycho's birth, his parents had promised that they would allow Jörgen to adopt the boy, but after he was born, they refused to keep their word. |
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