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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER V.
THE ISLAND OF HVEEN AND TYCHO BRAHE'S OBSERVATORIES AND OTHER BUILDINGS HIS ENDOWMENTS.
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Description of Hveen—Local traditions—Uraniborg—Instruments—Stjerneborg Observatory—Grant of Kullagaard manor—Prebend of Roskilde—Nordfjord estate in Norway |
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CHAPTER VI.
TYCHO'S LIFE AT HVEEN UNTIL THE DEATH OF KING FREDERICK II.
Home life—Printing press—Tenants at Hveen—Students and assistants—Flemlöse—Wittich—Elias Olsen—Longomontanus—Chemical researches—Correspondence—Visitors—Relations with the King—Horoscopes of Princes—Tycho's opinion of judicial astrology—Death of the King |
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CHAPTER VII.
TYCHO'S BOOK ON THE COMET OF 1577, AND HIS SYSTEM OF THE WORLD.
Comet of 1577—Six other comets—Tycho's book on comet of 1577—Comets celestial objects—Tychonic system of the world—System of Copernicus yet incomplete—Reymers (Ursus) and his system |
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CHAPTER VIII.
FURTHER WORK ON THE STAR OF 1572.
Tycho's larger book on the star—Its great distance—Dimensions of the universe—Nature of star—Its astrological effect |
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CHAPTER IX.
THE LAST YEARS AT HVEEN, 1588-1597.
New Government—New grant to Tycho—House at Copenhagen—Sophia Brahe—Visit of James VI.—Visit of Rothmann—Correspondence with the Landgrave and Magini—Visit of the young King—Tycho's quarrel with a tenant—Neglects to repair chapel of his prebend—Quarrel with Gellius—Volume of Epistles—Accession of King Christian IV.—Tycho deprived of Norwegian fief—Valkendorf—Pension stopped—Tycho leaves Hveen—Troubles about clergyman at Hveen |
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