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Mathematics Club
14/12/2023 @ 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM PST
Free
We will celebrate the BIRTHDAY of Danish mathematician and astronomer, TYCHO BRACH and discuss his life including
– his founding with the help of his smart little sister, SOPHIE BRACH, of the URANIBORG OBSERVATORY on the island of VEN (named HVEN prior to 1959).
– the first custom-built observatory in modern Europe,
and the last to be built without a telescope as its primary instrument;
– Brach’s observations of the Supernova of 11 November 1572, and its significance
– some of Brach’s work with Johannes Kepler and Kepler’ Laws of Planetary Motion (from geometric order he perceived in massive amounts of astronomical data points between 1609-1616)
Astronomical sextant used by Tycho Brahe (1546- 1601)