Tycho Brahe (In Our Time)
1572 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the pioneering Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546 – 1601) whose charts offered an unprecedented level of accuracy. In 1572 Brahe's observations of a new star challenged the idea, inherited from Aristotle, that the heavens were unchanging.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1572
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- English Reformation (1533)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Edo period (1603)
- Mughal Empire (1526)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)