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BRAHE
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• BRAHE (noun)
The noun BRAHE has 1 sense:
1. Danish astronomer whose observations of the planets provided the basis for Kepler's laws of planetary motion (1546-1601)
Familiarity information: BRAHE used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
Danish astronomer whose observations of the planets provided the basis for Kepler's laws of planetary motion (1546-1601)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Brahe; Tycho Brahe
Instance hypernyms:
astronomer; stargazer; uranologist (a physicist who studies astronomy)
Context examples
And though he wasn’t the first or only person to observe this stellar spectacle, the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe wrote a book about his extensive observations of the event, gaining the honor of it being named after him.
(Chandra Movie Captures Expanding Debris from a Stellar Explosion, NASA)
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