In 1560, Danish astronomers predicted that a total solar eclipse would occur on August 21 of this year. On that day, there really was a total solar eclipse. Accurate predictions of astronomers. Aroused the great interest of a 14-year-old boy, and prompted him to like astronomical observation ever since. He was later the famous astronomer Tycho Brahe in Denmark.
Brahe, born in a noble family in Denmark in 1546, entered the University of Copenhagen in 1559, and became interested in astronomy in 1560. Since then, he dedicated his life to the cause of astronomy. His life. It is to watch the sky.
In 1563, Brahe observed Jupiter and Saturn and wrote his first astronomical observation data. At the same time, he noticed that the occurrence of binary star unity was one month earlier than predicted by the ephemeris. Because of this discovery, he began to make his mark in the astronomical world. In 1576. King Frederick II of Denmark, who admired Brahe, bestowed the island on him and allocated a huge sum of money to let him build an observatory on the island. This observatory, called "Uraniborg", is the earliest large-scale observatory in the world. It costs more than one ton of gold.
Brahe worked day and night, and he calculated the positions of stars one after another. It was accurately and meticulously recorded on the astronomical map, and a series of astronomical data were re-measured, which provided an important reference for future observation activities.
Just when Brahe was immersed in his own observations, unfortunate things happened: in 1588, King Frederick died. After the death of the old king, the succeeding prince could not see the value of observing stars, and regretted the expense of maintaining the observatory and drawing useless star maps. then. The new king sent envoys to visit Brahe.
"What have you done for so many years?" After seeing Brahe, the messenger asked unceremoniously. Brahe showed the messenger a star map with 700 stars, and the messenger said disdainfully: "Is this all your job?" "No, my goal has not been reached yet!" Brahe said, "Dying Before I arrive, I think I will record 1,000." The messenger laughed and said: "What makes you sleepless but futile, before I go. Let me see what use it is."
Brahe certainly couldn't prove to the messenger any use of observing these stars. Then, the new king stopped funding him. After the observatory's funds were in trouble, Brahe had to maintain it for another 10 years, and had to be closed in 1597. Fortunately, in 1599, King Rudolf of Austria took him in. He also rebuilt an observatory in Prague so that he could continue to pursue his passion. Until his death in 1601, he finally completed the observation record of 1,000 stars.
The famous Danish writer Andersen described Brahe in "The Glorious Thorns Road": "A ship sailed out of Denmark. A man on the ship was standing leaning on the mast, giving a final glance to Wen Island. He is Tycho Brahe. He raised the Danish name to the planet, but he was paid ridicule and hurt. He ran abroad. He said: "There is sky everywhere, what else do I ask for What about things?" He is gone. Our most prestigious man has been respected, honored, and free abroad."
There is a blue sky everywhere, as long as you have a dream, you can watch under the dream sky, although the road to the dream is often full of thorns.
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