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Tycho Brahe aimed to revise the Alfonsine Tables and publish the __________ Tables.
Rudolphine
Tycho intended to base the Rudolphine Tables on his own __________ system.
Tyconic
Johannes Kepler was born in 1571 in a poor family in southwest __________.
Germany
Kepler adopted the __________ hypothesis.
Copernican
Kepler published Mysterium Cosmographicum, now known as The Forerunner of Dissertation on the __________.
Universe
Kepler believed the heavens could be described by only the most perfect __________.
shapes
Kepler believed the universe was composed of the sphere plus the five regular __________.
solids
After King Fredrick II's death in 1588, Tycho became imperial mathematician to Emperor __________ II.
Rudolph
Tycho did not intend to base the Rudolphine Tables on the __________ system.
Ptolemaic
Kepler gained a reputation as an astrologer and __________ in Graz.
seer
Test your knowledge on Tycho Brahe's discovery of a new star and his conclusion about its position above the starry sphere. Learn about how Tycho's precise measurements contradicted Aristotle's beliefs about the unchanging nature of celestial objects.
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