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- From: nolan@lpl.arizona.edu (Mike Nolan)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Re: Tycho Biography (was Re: Tycho Apocrypha)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.073257.27819@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 07:32:57 GMT
- References: <1jlm17INNs34@gap.caltech.edu> <1993Jan21.112709.1@fnalf.fnal.gov> <AWOOTTEN.93Jan21151259@slacktide.cv.nrao.edu>
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- In article <AWOOTTEN.93Jan21151259@slacktide.cv.nrao.edu> awootten@slacktide.cv.nrao.edu (Al Wootten) writes:
- >I once spent the better part of two
- >days in Copenhagen trying to figure out how to get to Hven without success.
- >I learned one should leave from Sweden. Thoren mentions plans to reconstruct
- >Uraniborg...anyone know anything more on that subject?
-
- I've delayed responding, assuming that someone closer to the source
- might... We went to Hven (vein or vain for at least American English
- speakers) last August. We left from K/obenhavn on what looked like a
- regular trip, though we were a group so I don't really know. The
- departure dock was near the boat for Poland, if that helps any.
-
- Apparently Tycho was not too well thought of :) and after he left for
- France the remnants of Uranienborg (sp?) were pretty much eliminated by
- the local populace. Recently, they've decided that he was worth a
- statue, and have begun reconstruction. His observatory has been dug
- up, so you can see the foundations upon which his instruments sat, and
- the ex-bolt-holes that held them before he ripped them out for the
- move. The "castle" is gone. There's now a brick outline of where it
- used to be that's been put in place, though there's some uncertainty in
- the exact shape and size. Now they're rebuilding the garden adjacent.
- There's not a lot of money for the project, I don't think the
- planet-groupie audience is that large. A far cry from when he had ~10%
- of the national budget. Oh, and there's a statue. Have your picture
- taken in front of it. You'll get a lot of people wondering what on Earth
- you're doing and who that strange person is.
-
- In any event the island was on the idyllic side. Partly because it
- was sunny that day, having rained the entire week before. Rent a
- bicycle and do the tour.
-
- I hope this synopsis is at least mostly right. I realize this
- "travelogue" doesn't really belong here, except for the word "Tycho".
-
- Mike Nolan nolan@{lpl.arizona.edu,arizona.bitnet,looney.span}
- Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson AZ 85721 USA
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