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  Uraniborg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Uraniborg became a kind of early "research institute", which attracted students from many regions.
On losing support from the new king Christian IV of Denmark, Tycho abandoned Hven in 1597 and both Uraniborg and Stjerneborg were destroyed shortly after Tycho's death.
The gardens of Uraniborg are currently slowly being restored as part of a historical research project to use the species and varieties then extant.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uraniborg   (283 words)

  
 The Scientific Revolution - Astronomy after Copernicus - free Suite101.com course
His home and observatory on the island of Hven, Uraniborg, "the fortress of Urania" (Urania was the Muse of Astronomy) was funded by the Danish crown and has claimed to be Europe’s first scientific research institute.
At Uraniborg, Tycho and his many followers made the best and most systematic observations ever made with the naked eye, using improved instruments, many of which he designed himself and had built in the instrument shop that was part of the Uraniborg complex.
As for Tycho himself, Uraniborg’s downfall was at the hands of the same Danish monarchy that had sustained it.
www.suite101.com /lesson.cfm/17556/936/2   (622 words)

  
 Tycho Brahe - WiccanWeb.ca
Uraniborg also had a laboratory for his alchemy experiments.
His interest in alchemy, particularly the medical alchemy associated with Paracelsus, was almost as long-standing as his study of astrology and astronomy simultaneously, and Uraniborg was constructed as both observatory and laboratory.
In an introductory oration to the course of lectures he gave in Copenhagen in 1574, Tycho defended astrology on the grounds of correspondences between the heavenly bodies, terrestrial substances (metals, stones etc.) and bodily organs.
www.wiccanweb.ca /wiki/index.php/Tycho_Brahe   (2647 words)

  
 Tycho Brahe
He had Uraniborg built; which become an early "research institute[?]".
Recent investigations suppose that Tycho did not die directly of his urinary problems, but maybe poisoned himself unintentionally by administering some medicine containing arsenic (he pursued alchemical studies as well throughout his life, however he seems either not to have kept records or to have destroyed them).
Victor E. Thoren: The Lord of Uraniborg: a biography of Tycho Brahe (Cambridge University Press, 1990) (ISBN 0-521-35158-8) (520pp)
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ty/Tycho_Brahe.html   (624 words)

  
 Imago Mundi - Le Voyage d'Uraniborg (VII).
Et VL la distance entre Uraniborg et Landscrona calculée de 4760 toises.
entre Copenhague et Uraniborg; mais d'autant que par la supposition des trois côtés donnés au triangle PCV, L'angle P venait plus grand d'environ 30" qe celui que je viens de conclure, sans que je sus à quoi en attribuer la faute, je crus qu'il était nécéssaire d'en venir à la vérification suivante.
Roëmer et le sieur Villiard allèrent à Uraniborg vers la fin de décembre 1671 avec ordre d'observer environ à certaine heure donnée, le moment auquel un feu qui aurait paru à la tour viendrait à disparaître; ce qui se devait faire plusieurs fois.
www.cosmovisions.com /Picard0107.htm   (827 words)

  
 Uraniborg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Tycho Brahe built Uraniborg on the island of Hveen in the Danish sound.
The island was probably given to Brahe as a fief.
The castle was built between 1576 and 1580 but destroyed soon after Brahe's evacuation.
www.princeton.edu /~his291/Uraniborg.html   (37 words)

  
 A Script-in-Progress for the Premiere of The Gheens Science Center & Rauch
King Frederick II of Denmark offered Tycho the position of royal astronomer and the 2000 acre island of Hven, with all its tenants and servants to create the most elaborate observatory in existence: Uraniborg, "City of Heaven." It was so magnificent King Frederick would bring royal guests to visit.
Uraniborg soon filled with instruments, and since its wood floors were not strong enough to support the largest of these, Tycho added a small subterranian building, "Stellaborg", of brick and stone, with geothermal insulation, and the first rotating dome roofs.
For 20 years, Tycho measured the positions of the stars and planets; observed the motion of the Moon; discovered comets; and measured the length of the year to within 3 seconds.
delphi.louisville.edu /ron/planetarium/OldScripts/Tycho.html   (714 words)

  
 Brahe's Mural Quadrant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The portrait of Brahe is painted onto the wall pointing toward the slit in the wall through which heavenly bodies were viewed.
He is portrayed beneath portraits of his liege-lord and in front of a cross-section of his castle Uraniborg.
Notice the astronomical instruments mounted on the roof, meeting rooms on the main floor, and an alchemical laboratory in the basement.
www.princeton.edu /~his291/Mural_Quadrant.html   (119 words)

  
 Uraniborg og Greenwich
Den astronomi- og astrologikyndige landgreve Wilhelm af Hessen i Cassel havde indrettet et observatorium i sin borg, og var bestyret af hans assistent Christoffer Rothmann.
Uraniborg var et dobbeltanlæg, der med dets tilknyttede underjordiske observatoriekompleks ”Stjerneborg” skulle - trods dets relativt korte levetid - blive et af de berømteste observatorier nogensinde.
Således synes Flamsteed nøje at have fulgt Tycho Brahes horoskop for Uraniborgs grundstensnedlæggelse som inspirationskilde, hvilket er en hidtil ukendt baggrund.
www.thirax.dk /Artikel-X/OveVonSpaeth/Ove25/index.htm   (2860 words)

  
 Mare Balticum - Fæstninger
In 1576-80 Frederik II had the observatory Uraniborg built on the island of Hven for the astronomer Tycho Brahe.
Foundation stone with inscription, from Tycho Brahe’s Uraniborg on the island of Ven.
The castle of Uraniborg on Ven was shown by Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg in their book Civitates orbis terrarum 1588.
marebalticum.natmus.dk /lokUK.asp?ID=25   (319 words)

  
 Learn more about Uraniborg in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Learn more about Uraniborg in the online encyclopedia.
Hint: Play with putting spaces before and after your words to see the different results you get.
Uraniborg was the observatory of Tycho Brahe; built on Ven, an island in the Öresund; between Zealand and Scania.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /u/ur/uraniborg.html   (123 words)

  
 Brahe biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
The observatory, called Uraniborg, was equipped with exceptionally large and accurate instruments (and with an alchemical laboratory in its basement).
Here is his plan of the gardens, from the same work, with the main building in the centre and servants' quarters, a printing studio, and other buildings just inside the outer walls.
He published his account in De mundi aetherei recentioribus phaenomenis (1588) where he draws cosmological conclusions from the fact that his measurements show that the comet is not closer to Earth than the Moon, contradicting Aristotle's model of the cosmos.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Brahe.html   (3165 words)

  
 A Script-in-Progress for the Premiere of The Gheens Science Center & Rauch
Thus Uraniborg, "City of Heaven," came to be.
When Uraniborg filled with instruments, Tycho added a small subterranian building, "Stellaborg", and the first rotating dome roofs.
For 20 years, Tycho measured the positions of the stars and planets; observed the motion of the Moon; discovered comets; and determined the length of the year to within 3 seconds.
delphi.louisville.edu /ron/planetarium/Tycho.html   (633 words)

  
 Uraniborg - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
El Uraniborg (“Castillo de Urania”) era un centro astronómico construido como un palacio entre los años 1576 y 1580 por el rey Federico II y ubicado en la isla danesa de Ven (también conocida como Hven o Hveen).
El palacio Uraniborg recibe su nombre de Urania, musa de la astronomía.
Pronto el fastuoso Uraniborg se convirtió en un completo "instituto de investigación" poseyendo incluso su propia imprenta con la que publicar sus trabajos de investigación.
es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uraniborg   (381 words)

  
 The Lord of Uraniborg - Cambridge University Press
The Lord of Uraniborg is a comprehensive biography of Tycho Brahe, father of modern astronomy, famed alchemist and littérateur of the sixteenth-century Danish Renaissance.
Written in a lively and engaging style, Victor Thoren's biography offers fresh perspectives on Tycho's life and presents new analyses of virtually every aspect of his scientific work.
The theory of the motion of the moon; 11.
www.cambridge.org /aus/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521033071   (113 words)

  
 The Tower of Babel + SGML, Uraniborg, Thélème....
The Tower of Babel + SGML, Uraniborg, Thélème....
The Tower of Babel was a mythical precursor of the Internet and global telecommunications, by means of which we project our name into the empyrean via radio and TV transmitters, rather than masonry.
One of these is Tycho Brahe's community devoted to scientific research: Uraniborg (picture below; see also: the inscription Tycho placed at the entrance).
www.users.cloud9.net /~bradmcc/babelsig.html   (531 words)

  
 Image of Tycho Brahe: Johannes Hevelius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Johannes Hevelius, one of the leading observational astronomers of the seventeenth century, strongly cast himself in the image of Tycho Brahe.
Through the way he identified himself with Tycho and through the instruments he chose for his observatory, he was able to benefit from Tycho's reputation, but this was an ambiguous legacy almost a century after the observations made at Uraniborg.
The instruments at Sternenburg were designed in the manner of those on Hven and were constructed under the close super vision of the astronomer, as Tycho's had been.
www.mhs.ox.ac.uk /tycho/hevelius.htm   (258 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Tycho Brahe was one of history's great scientists whose ground-breaking observations in the 1500's set the stage for the discovery of the laws of planetary motion.
To carry out his work, Brahe was granted his own private island by the King of Denmark where he constructed the magnificent Uraniborg, part castle, part laboratory and part observatory.
His talk will include the theoretical and practical efforts in restoring Uraniborg's gardens and discuss the Renaissance era thinking on gardens and plants and how they served the great astronomer's plans.
helios.augustana.edu /astronomy/public-lectures/krell-lundquist.html   (152 words)

  
 Uraniborg - Wikipedia en español   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
El palacio Uraniborg recibe su nombre de Urania, musa de la
Pronto el fastuoso Uraniborg se convirtió en un completo "instituto de investigación" poseyendo incluso su propia
Los observatorios de Uraniborg y Stjerneborg fueron objeto de pillajes y rapiñas por los pescadores cayendo rápidamente en ruinas.
www.brujula.net /wiki/Uraniborg   (359 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Science/Health -- Questions answered
There's a type of West Indies pineapple that is sometimes known by the name penguin.
Uraniborg was the creation of the 16th century astronomer Tycho Brahe.
In 1576, Brahe built an observatory on the island of Hven, which had been given to him by Denmark's king, Frederik II.
www.signonsandiego.com /news/science/20030514-9999_1c14sciqa.html   (373 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: On Tycho's Island : Tycho Brahe and his Assistants, 1570-1601: Books: John Robert Christianson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) became his era's "patron of science par excellence": he used his smarts, aristocratic status and access to Denmark's king, Frederick II, to turn the island of Hven into Uraniborg, a community built for the advancement of arts and sciences, staffed with scholars invited from all over Europe.
Because Brahe's wife was a commoner, his sons could not inherit all his privileges; he spent much of the 1590s on schemes to ensure that Uraniborg would survive him.
At its peak, Uraniborg (as the science center was called) supported not only Tycho's large family and servants, but a substantial group of assistants.
www.amazon.ca /Tychos-Island-Tycho-Assistants-1570-1601/dp/052165081X   (1222 words)

  
 Hven   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Grundstenen til Uraniborg blev grundlagt allerede i 1576, og i 1580 var den færdigbygget.
Lidt syd for Uraniborg byggede Tycho Brahe i 1584 Stjerneborg, som for en stor del var underjordisk.
Uraniborg rummede observatorium, bolig, bibliotek og kemisk laboratorium.
www.udstillinger.dnlb.dk /Astroweb/Observatorier/Hven.html   (286 words)

  
 [No title]
Had it not been for this opportune apparition, it is quite possible that Tycho might have found a career in some direction less beneficial to science than that which he ultimately pursued.
The foundation of the famous castle of Uraniborg was laid on 30th August, 1576.
The picturesque character of this wonderful temple for the study of the stars may be seen in the figures with which this chapter is illustrated.
snowy.arsc.alaska.edu /gutenberg/etext00/grast11.txt   (22534 words)

  
 Lecture 15: "The Watershed"
Tycho knew that he needed the best astronomical data to prove that his system was correct.
With the backing of the Danish crown, he built "Uraniborg" (Heavenly Castle) on Hven, a tiny island in the Øresund straits between Denmark and Sweden.
Uraniborg quickly became the premier center for astronomical research in Europe.
www-astronomy.mps.ohio-state.edu /~pogge/Ast161/Unit3/watershed.html   (1192 words)

  
 HISTORY
To prevent him from moving abroad the king, Frederik II, gave him the island of Ven in Øresund, from where he observed the stars for 21 years.
On Ven Tycho constructed a small castle, Uraniborg (the castle of Urania), which had instruments under the roof, as well as an observatory called Stjerneborg (the castle of the Stars).
The next important Danish astronomer was Ole Rømer, who as a student came from Århus to Copenhagen in the mid 1660s, where he studied astronomy.
home.worldonline.dk /durin/engelsk/observatorium/history.htm   (1253 words)

  
 Tycho Brahe
He established on the island the Uraniborg Observatory.
Throughout his career, and in particular at Uraniborg, Tycho proceeded to build astronomical measuring instruments of unprecedented accuracy, not to mention physical size.
He also established his own printing press on Hven, and build a second underground observatory with isolated observing stations to ensure reliably independent multiple astronomical measurements.
www.hao.ucar.edu /Public/education/bios/tycho.html   (447 words)

  
 The Island of Hven - Ven -- Pictures of Tycho Brahe and his astronomical instruments at Uraniborg
The interior picture of the great wall-quadrant at Uraniborg should be regarded as an advertisement by Tycho Brahe to show off some of the many activities taking place at his institution.
In the foreground is the great quadrant with Tycho Brahe's new measuring scale, the clocks, the notary and timetaker.
The mountains in the background should be taken with a hefty pinch of salt as the "mountain chains" on Hven are more like molehills
www.hven.net /EUBORG2B.html   (110 words)

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