Tycho Brahe Observing Supernova, 1572

Tycho Brahe Observing Supernova, 1572

Brahe observing the new star (supernova) in the Cassiopeia constellation (upper left corner). It appeared in the Historical book Astronomie Populaire by Camille Flammarion (Paris, 1884). The supernova of 1572 is often called Tycho's supernova, because of his extensive work De nova et nullius aevi memoria prius visa stella (Concerning the Star, new and never before seen in the life or memory of anyone, published in 1573), a work containing both his own observations and the analysis of sightings from many other observers. Tycho Brahe (December 14, 1546, October 24, 1601) was a Danish astronomer and alchemist. He was the last of the major naked eye astronomers, working without telescopes for his observations. Tycho is credited with the most accurate astronomical observations of his time, and the data was used by his assistant, Johannes Kepler, to derive the laws of planetary motion. Due to a dueling injury at university, he always wore a metal nose prosthetic.

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