Tycho's Parallax Discovery

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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.

<p>Copernican</p> Signup and view all the answers

Kepler published Mysterium Cosmographicum, now known as The Forerunner of Dissertation on the __________.

<p>Universe</p> Signup and view all the answers

Kepler believed the heavens could be described by only the most perfect __________.

<p>shapes</p> Signup and view all the answers

Kepler believed the universe was composed of the sphere plus the five regular __________.

<p>solids</p> Signup and view all the answers

After King Fredrick II's death in 1588, Tycho became imperial mathematician to Emperor __________ II.

<p>Rudolph</p> Signup and view all the answers

Tycho did not intend to base the Rudolphine Tables on the __________ system.

<p>Ptolemaic</p> Signup and view all the answers

Kepler gained a reputation as an astrologer and __________ in Graz.

<p>seer</p> Signup and view all the answers

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