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The Celestial Palace of Tycho Brahe

In the late 16th century a Danish nobleman built on the island of Hven the most ambitious astronomical observatory the world had yet seen. Its precise instruments created modern astronomy

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 204 Issue 2This article was originally published with the title “The Celestial Palace of Tycho Brahe” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 204 No. 2 (), p. 118
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0261-118