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- From: higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Tycho Biography (was Re: Tycho Apocrypha)
- Date: 21 Jan 93 11:27:09 -0600
- Organization: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
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- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.112709.1@fnalf.fnal.gov>
- References: <1993Jan20.215204.16371@athena.mit.edu> <1993Jan20.234308.20564@athena.mit.edu> <1jlm17INNs34@gap.caltech.edu>
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- In article <1jlm17INNs34@gap.caltech.edu>, jafoust@cco.caltech.edu (Jeffrey Alan Foust) writes:
- > I would add "eccentric" to the above description of Tycho Brahe. Here are
- > some brief excerpts from "The Mechanical Universe: Mechanics and Heat,
- > Advanced Edition"
-
- There is a biography called *Lord of Uraniborg* that's gotten good
- reviews, haven't read it, can't recall the author... let's fool with
- the computer here...
-
- QB36.B8 T49 1990
- Thoren, Victor E.
- The Lord of Uraniborg : a biography of Tycho Brahe / Victor
- E. Thoren ; with contributions by John R.
- Christianson.
- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press,
- 1990.
-
- One of these days I'll get around to reading it.
-
- > Jeff Foust Senior, Geophysics/Planetary Science, Caltech
- > jafoust@cco.caltech.edu jeff@scn1.jpl.nasa.gov
- > Final score of the Interstellar Space Deep Space 9
- > Station Championship Softball Game: Babylon 5
-
- Jeff, I really like this signature...
-
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