Tycho Tidbits
After the death of King Frederick II, Tycho moved to this European City.
What is Prague?
This constellation is known as the "wagon" in the Iliad.
What is Ursa Major?
He envisioned the orbits of planets as being nestled inside a series of Pythagorean figures, nestled inside one another.
Who is Kepler?
This astronomer rejected the use of equants.
Who is Copernicus?
This is Mr. Licari's favorite food.
What are chicken wings?
In Tycho's compromise system, the planets obit this body.
What is the sun?
This was the name of Copernicus' most celebrated work, whose title paid homage to the Greek models that preceded him.
What is On the Revolution of Heavenly Spheres?
The cube is a regular solid with how many square faces?
What is six square faces?
This model was initially rejected because of a lack of perceived stellar parallax.
What is the heliocentric model?
This was recently found on the moon, baffling scientists.
What is rust?
Seeking the most precise measurements, Tycho did these two things to each of his instruments.
This ground breaking book was published by Newton in 1687.
What is Principia?
The octahedron has this many triangular faces.
What is eight?
Pluto was rejected as a planet because it lacked this key feature.
It failed to attract and repel satellites within its field of influence.
Today is the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, which commemorates the Christian victory in this famous battle.
What is Lepanto?
When Tycho compared observations of this object from across Europe, he came to the conclusion that it must be much further away form Earth than the moon.
What is a comet?
In this poem by John Milton, he pondered the reality of planetary motion.
What is Paradise Lost?
The dodecaherdron solid has this many five-sided faces.
What is twelve?
This astronomer rejected the epicycle.
Who is Kepler?
Excluding Pluto, this planet is the most eccentric.
What is Mercury?
The appearance of a star in this constellation led Tycho Brahe to believe some of the ancient assumptions might be wrong.
What is Cassiopeia
Galileo described the third telescope in this book.
What is The Starry Messenger?
What is 20 faces?
Galileo new science of mechanics rejected this philosophers assumptions about physics.
Who is Aristotle?
The brightest star of the constellation Orion.
What is Betelguese?