Tycho Brahe’s Appendix ad Observationes anni 1593 and the date of Brahe’s theory of Mars, the prototype for Kepler’s vicarious hypothesis
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DOI: 10.1177/00218286221099993
Abstract: The Alfonsine and Prutenic tables of planetary latitudes, with which Tycho Brahe began his work, had several deficiencies, ultimately inherited from Ptolemy’s simplifications when he constructed tables for his extremely complicated models. In this paper,… read more here.
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Tycho Brahe’s observations of Præsepe Cancri
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DOI: 10.1177/00218286221126362
Abstract: Tycho Brahe made several thousand observations of the celestial bodies, in general with an unprecedented accuracy and precision. A group of observations of a nebulous object known as Præsepe differs, however, significantly from the general… read more here.
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