The in our time podcast gets some extra time now with a few minutes of bonus material for Melvin and his guests thank you very much we miss out i think we could have spent some more time talking about tikos character which is very much debated in the literature. There are lots of them in his lifetime that's interesting in itself because it tells us quite a bit about concepts of credit priority intellectual property so he did accuse people of stealing his world system or his mathematical technologies and taking them to other places and then pass them off as their own was he right in those disputes well it's not entirely clear Because we do have in some cases we have two sides of the dispute neither side prosecuted
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the pioneering Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546 – 1601) whose charts offered an unprecedented level of accuracy.
In 1572 Brahe's observations of a new star challenged the idea, inherited from Aristotle, that the heavens were unchanging. He went on to create his own observatory complex on the Danish island of Hven, and there, working before the invention of the telescope, he developed innovative instruments and gathered a team of assistants, taking a highly systematic approach to observation. A second, smaller source of renown was his metal prosthetic nose, which he needed after a serious injury sustained in a duel.
The image above shows Brahe aged 40, from the Atlas Major by Johann Blaeu.
With
Ole Grell
Emeritus Professor in Early Modern History at the Open University
Adam Mosley
Associate Professor of History at Swansea University
and
Emma Perkins
Affiliate Scholar in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.