TYCHO BRAHE

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• TYCHO BRAHE (noun)
  The noun TYCHO 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: TYCHO BRAHE used as a noun is very rare.

• TYCHO BRAHE (noun)

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)