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Prague, Czechoslovakia, 24 October He had five sisters and five brothers, including his still—born twin. Otto Brahe was a privy councillor and later became governor of Helsingborg Castle. His observations of the nova of and several comets forced abandonment of the traditional celestial spheres, and his observations of Mars enabled Kepler to discover the laws of planetary motion.

Information about his observatory and observational techniques was widely disseminated, and his geoheliocentric system gained numerous supporters. From April to February he attended the Lutheran University of Copenhagen, where the ologians and faculty were under the influence of Melanchthon as well as Aristotle and the Scholastics.

Tycho must have begun his studies in the Faculty of Philosophy by applying himself first to the trivium ; his study of the arts probably began under the lecturers in pedagogy, who emphasized the writing and speaking of Latin. No doubt he received instruction in the articles of faith from the Lutheran catechism on Sunday mornings.

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Since his family was a noble one, Tycho did not need a university degree to establish himself in a profession. Therefore, he must have entered on the study of the quadrivium as soon as he was able, without waiting to earn a degree. Ethics and singing were included in the university quadrivium ; and at the chapter house of the cathedral, students practiced and heard lectures on singing.

Also available lectures on hermonic theory, a mathematical discipline since the time of Pythagoras. From the lectures on the natural sciences and philosophy that Tycho may also have heard, he would have emerged as a convinced Aristotelian. Tycho made friends with, and later wrote an epitaph for, Hans Fransden, from Ribe in Jutland Johannes Franciscus Ripensis , who lectured on Hippocrates and Galen as well as on mathematics, acted as physician to the King, and prepared an annual astrological almanac.

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On 21 August the occurrence at the predicted time of a solar eclipse, although only partial in Copenhagen, turned Tycho toward observational astronomy, which was not part of the university curriculum. Vedel had spent less than a year attending lectures on divinity and studying history at the university, but he was later to distinguish himself as a historian.

Except for two short visits, Tycho remained away from his homeland until