Since the publication of Copernicus's theory of celestial bodies, there has been opposition from two aspects: one is the opposition of authority, and the other is the opposition of common sense. Although intellectuals like Bruno have accepted this brand-new cosmic system, its influence on the whole society is not great. So, in fact, until the year 16 16, the Vatican didn't think how dangerous Copernicus' Heliocentrism was.
In this more than half a century, the church has been tolerant of the theory of celestial bodies, so Copernicus's Heliocentrism has been spread among astronomers and some intellectuals. During this period, the Copernican revolution only had very strong and potential revolutionary significance. It needs to be gradually revealed to become the horn of the whole astronomical revolution-the scientific revolution.
Show the full significance of Copernicus revolution, and gradually make his Heliocentrism system more perfect, more accurate is the famous German astronomer John? Kepler. However, there is a very important intermediate link between Copernicus and Kepler, that is, Tycho, a famous Danish astronomer called "the father of modern astronomy" by later generations. Nonsense.
Tycho? Bula was born in a noble family in Denmark on 1546. His father is a lawyer and he has an uncle. He is a rich and powerful old nobleman in Denmark. Since his uncle had no son, Tycho adopted him from an early age.
Tycho's uncle is very important and rich. So he didn't want Tycho to do business, and he didn't want Tycho to become a scholar. Instead, I hope Tycho will engage in politics, be a big official, honor his ancestors in the future and inherit the mantle of his old aristocrat.
Tycho was sent to Copenhagen, the capital, to attend university when he was thirteen. In name, I study philosophy and rhetoric, but in fact, I just learn some vulgar things that officialdom can do for people and entertain people correctly (this set of things is still being learned today because it is an indispensable basic skill of officialdom). Tycho is not interested in this. He grew up in his uncle's parents and saw through the tricks of the old aristocratic officialdom. Just like Jia Baoyu in A Dream of Red Mansions, he is tired of being an official. In the officialdom, the struggle for power and profit, intrigue, intrigue and gaffes among the old nobles were extremely dirty in Tycho's view. Therefore, he stopped studying rhetoric and those lifestyles, but fell in love with the knowledge of studying distant space-astronomy.
The cause of the matter is this.
1560 In August, the Copenhagen Observatory in Denmark predicted that there would be a solar eclipse on February1day of this month, which could be observed in Copenhagen.
/kloc-tycho at the age of 0/4? Like many other curious teenagers, Bula is waiting for this day with great interest. Sure enough, people in Copenhagen saw the solar eclipse on August 2 1, 1560. This incident caused Tycho to think deeply. He thought: since the time of solar eclipse can be measured in advance, then the celestial bodies must be running regularly. If only I could explore this mysterious law and the mystery of the universe! From then on, he really fell in love with astronomy.
Tycho not only often observed astronomical phenomena, but also read a lot of astronomical works. Ptolemy's "astronomy" in ancient Greece made him a treasure and he became an admirer of Ptolemy. He fell in love with astronomy because he didn't take the "right path" and didn't want to learn to be an official, which made his uncle very dissatisfied.
In order to lead Tycho to his career and make him give up astronomical research, his uncle sent him to the University of Leipzig in Germany to study law in 1562, and also sent him a tutor to supervise his study. Fortunately, this tutor didn't dare to disobey Uncle Tycho's orders and didn't want to make his master angry. The supervision of Tycho only turns a blind eye, so Tycho can study him quietly.
1566, Tycho's uncle died, and Tycho was free at once. He can have more time to do his favorite career-astronomical research.