Brage is a brief biography

Born on December 14 at the Knudstrup Priv estate. Skone, Denmark, now Sweden. In - first studied at the University of Copenhagen, then at the University of Leipzig. Impressed by the observation of the solar eclipse that occurred in strict accordance with the prediction, became interested in astronomy. With began to conduct astronomical observations. In November, he watched a new star in the constellation Cassiopei.

As it turned out already in the 20th century. Most of the instruments that the observatory was equipped with, the scientist did himself, he managed to achieve high accuracy of measurements. Quiet Brage compiled new exact solar tables and an updated catalog of stars. The data obtained allowed I. Kepler to open the laws of the motion of the planets. Brage himself did not recognize the Copernicus system and believed that the Earth is in the center of the world, the sun moves around the Earth, and the rest of the planets turn around the Sun.

The Brage died quietly in Prague on October 24, the materials of the Encyclopedia of the Circumvelight were used. Brage, quietly dates. Brahe aristocrat, who independently studied astronomy. The main research method is the own observations of the starry sky and the calculations listed in the tables of the movement of the luminaries, which Brage led all his life. He designed a number of tools to measure the position of stars, which allowed 20 times more precisely than before, to determine their position.

He studied at a number of German universities. He was also engaged in medicine, alchemy, astrology. On a duel in the year he lost part of the nose, which is reflected on the tombstone of the Brage in the Tyne temple of Prague. Returning to Denmark, he was engaged in science. He described the phenomenon what he saw in the constellation Cassiopei “On the New Star”, which is now called the Supernova Star quietly Brage.

He gave lectures at the University of Copenhagen, then made a trip to Europe, during which he met a number of large scientists and the theory of Copernicus, the supporter of which he did not become all due to his respect for her author, expressed publicly. At the expense of King Frederick II, Brage was built by the Uraniborg-the zoom observatory, the description of the equipment of which gave in the book “Mechanics of the Updated Astronomy” in Uraniborg Braga compiled tables of light refraction in the atmosphere and catalog of stars.

In the second book about recent phenomena in the etheric world, he proved that comets are celestial bodies, and tried to reconcile the systems of Claudia Ptolemy and Copernicus, proving his compromise theory of the geo-heeliocentric structure of the world. Due to the negative attitude to his activity, Braga left Denmark and began to work in Prague at the court of Emperor Rudolph II in the year.

There, in the Benata castle, he continued his scientific research. His assistant was the young I. Kepler, who then, based on tables of Brage and observations of Mars, formulated the laws of the movement of planets. The famous "Rudolphin Astronomical Tables" Kepler were based on some calculations of Braga. Quoted by ed. Literature: White Yu. Quiet Brage.

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Here, the predictions of astronomers, regarding the solar eclipse on August 21, excited such interest in it that he decided to completely devote himself to astronomy. But this did not agree with the views of his parents, and when, two years later, he went on a foreign trip, along with his teacher, the latter was strictly punished to ensure that the young Brage was extremely engaged in legal and state science.

Thus, only at night, secretly from everyone, could he indulge in his favorite studies. Having bought a small heavenly globe for himself, he began to look for stars in the sky and, using a wooden circul, calculate the distance between them. The only leadership was the books that he bought with his pocket money and which he could only read furtively. Despite such adverse conditions, he watched the passage of Saturn through Jupiter in the year and discovered errors in Copernicus's calculations.

Upon returning to Denmark in G. in the year, at the suggestion of the Danish king Frederick II, Braga gave some time a lecture on mathematics in Copenhagen, and then took a new trip to Germany, Switzerland and Italy. Brage was thinking to firmly plunge in Basel, but the Danish king granted him the now -owned Swedish island of Gveen in the Zunda Strait; Then, having appointed constant annual content to the famous astronomer, the king volunteered to build buildings and deliver tools for his mathematical and chemical classes.

Thus, a magnificent Uranienburg arose on the island of Gveen in the year, on the construction of which Braga himself restrained a large sum of his own money. A description of the instruments that served Brage for his studies in Uranienburg, for the most part copper, can be found in his essay: “Astronomiae Instaurae Mechanica” Wandsb.Scientists from distant countries and even many sovereigns among them were the king of English James I visited Braga on his island.

He was constantly constantly surrounded by his students who came to study under his leadership. He immediately invented a planetary system named by his name, but nothing, however, who did not add to his glory and soon forgotten, and also determined the meridian of his observatory and compiled a catalog of motionless stars. In many of these works, his sister Sophia helped him.

With the successor of Frederick II, Christians IV, thanks to the machinations of enemies quietly, staying on the island of Gveen and then in Copenhagen it became so painful for him that in the year he and his family left the Fatherland forever. Two years later, he entered the service of Emperor Rudolf II, and near Prague, the then residence of the court, he was first assigned to the Benak imperial castle, and then another house from which Rudolf intended to create a new Uranienburg.

Here he entered the assistants I. Kepler, who had the most valuable observations after the death of Braga. Based on these observations, Kepler deduced his famous laws of the planet movement. Brage quietly belongs to the outstanding scientists of his age, and Kepler himself owes him to many. He can be considered the founder of practical astronomy and the accuracy of his observations surpassed all his predecessors.

From his astronomical works, which are all written in Latin, except already named above, it should be noted “Astronomiae Instaurae Progymnasmata” 2 t. The precious collection of his astronomical and other instruments, bought by Emperor Rudolph II, disappeared after the battle of white mountain; Only one sextant survived, still preserved in Prague. A huge celestial globe, from copper, which they say, cost Thaler, after many adventures he got to Copenhagen and there he died in the castle in the city of Braga a statue according to the Bissen model.

Sources: 1. S - PB, Moscow, Lomonosovsky passage, the village of Biographical Help was prepared by Vadim Medyev. Works: “Astronomiae Instaurae Mechanica”, Wandsb. Dreyer, V. Literature: Life B. Raeder, [a.