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Tycho Brahe Biography

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Tycho Brahe was born December 14, 1546. He was born in the Danish peninsula of Scania. He was the oldest of 12 siblings. He had a twin brother but he died before he could be baptized. Later when he was about two his parents gave him away to his uncle because they did not have babies. So he was raised by his uncle Jorgen Thygesen Brahe and his ant Inger Oxe. They lived castle near Odense. In his young ages Brahe attended latin school. Later when he was around 13 Brahe started studying in the University of Copenhagen. He studied law because that was his uncle wishes were. He studied lots of other subjects but the one that interested him the most was Astronomy. He predicted and saw his first solar eclipse. The solar eclipse that he saw was of

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