Tycho Brahe: A Picture Of Scientific Life And Work In The Sixteenth Century (Cambridge Library Collection - Astronomy)

First published in 1890, this biography of the last of the naked-eye astronomers remained definitive for over a century. Dreyer sets out to illuminate not simply the life of his subject, but also the lives and work of Brahe's contemporaries and the progress of science in the sixteenth century.

• • Author: John Louis Emil Dreyer
• • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• • Publication Date: Feb 13, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 434 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Paperback
• • ISBN-10: 1108068715
• • ISBN-13: 9781108068710