Wednesday, May 16, 2007

On Tycho's Island: Tycho Brahe and His Assistants, 1570-1601


A Platonic philosopher, Paracelsian chemist, Ovidian poet, and devoted family man, Tycho Brahe was the last Renaissance man and the first great organizer of modern science. This book provides the fullest portrait available of the research and cultural interests of the man who became the premier patron-practitioner of science in sixteenth-century Europe.

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