Tycho Brahé: astrology, horoscope, natal chart

Tycho Brahe, born Tyge Ottesen Brahe (December 14, 1546 – October 24, 1601), was a Danish nobleman from the region of Scania (in modern-day Sweden), best known today as an early astronomer, though in his lifetime he was also well known as an astrologer and alchemist. The Latinized name Tycho Brahe is usually pronounced or in American English, and or in British English. The original Danish name Tyge Ottesen Brahe is pronounced in Modern Standard Danish as . Tycho Brahe was granted an estate on the island of Hven and the funding to build the Uraniborg, an early research institute, where he built large astronomical instruments and took many careful measurements. As an astronomer, Tycho worked to combine what he saw as the geometrical benefits of the Copernican system with the philos...