Novelist Joshua Gilder (Ghost Image) and his wife, former TV producer and investigative reporter Anne-Lee Gilder, offer a startling twist on the story of the troubled relationship of Tycho Brahe and ...

The story of how Copernicus replaced the prevailing geocentric view of the universe with his heliocentric model is a familiar one. Less familiar are Tycho Brahe's contributions to astronomy and his ...

Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler were both obsessed with the heavens, but otherwise had little in common. Tycho -- like Galileo, he is often remembered by his first name -- was the greatest astronomer ...

A statue of Brahe and Kepler in Prague. Prague was also the last place, the grave of Brahe is still in the old town of Prague Church of Our Lady before Týn It is in Tycho Brahe, who observed and ...

In The Royal Art of Poison: Filthy Palaces, Fatal Cosmetics, Deadly Medicine, and Murder Most Foul, author Eleanor Herman delves into the deadly—and often disgusting—world that lay beneath Western ...

Those giants of astronomy, Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, were both born in the 1500s. It’s never been clearly established how Tycho died, but there have been suspicions that the younger man, Kepler ...

PRAGUE — Some contend it was a crime of passion committed by a jealous king. Others insist it was murder inspired by professional rivalry between two celebrated astronomers. Or maybe it was a death by ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American There is no shortage of lore surrounding ...

Two years after Tycho Brahe was exhumed from his grave in Prague, chemical analyses of his corpse show that mercury poisoning did not kill the prolific 16th-century astronomer. The results should put ...