title: Tycho Brahe: emperor of Hven and the heavens.
abstract: Although the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe reacted against Copernicus by restoring the earth to the centre of the cosmos, he built sophisticated instruments to compile massive sets of accurate data. A skilled self-publicist, he commissioned portraits of himself as he established a new type of astronomical research.
authors.affiliation: Clare College, Cambridge, UK. pf10006@cam.ac.uk
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fara
mesh_terms: D001255:Astrology / Q000266:history; D001256:Astronomy / Q000266:history*; D003718:Denmark; D049669:History, 16th Century