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Tycho Brahe Resume
Royale Académie de Sciences
Name
 Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)
 By Hedy Chen and Silvia Santiago
Address
 Uraniborg castle Hven Island, in Oresund (Sweden)
Job Objective
 In the future, I would like to work in my new observatory in Benátky, 50
km from Prague.
 With the help of my colleague and assistant, Johannes Kepler, I would like
to keep observing the heavens and discovering new celestial forms; set a
new system to measure orbits and distances of the planets.
Qualifications/Life Experiences
 I was the first preeminent observational astronomer of the pre-telescopic
period, and my observations of stellar and planetary positions achieved
unparalleled accuracy for my time.
 I proposed the first system in which the Sun orbited the Earth while the
other planets orbited the Sun.
 My system provided a safe position for astronomers who were dissatisfied
with older models but were reluctant to accept the Earth's motion.
 I lived by the words "Non videri sed esse", meaning not to be seen but to
be.
 What made me become an astronomer was my discovery of a Supernova
in November 11, 1572.
Employment
 I worked for Frederick II of Denmark and Norway, who was impressed
with my 1572 observations, and financed the construction of my two
observatories on the island of Hven.
 In 1599, I was sponsored by Rudolf II, the Holy Roman Emperor; he built
a new observatory in a castle in Benátky nad Jizerou, 50 km from Prague.
 I worked there for one year. My duties included preparing astrological
charts and predictions for my patrons on events such as births, weather
forecasting, and providing astrological interpretations of significant
astronomical events such as the comet of 1577 and the supernova of 1572.
Education and training
 I attended the Copenhagen university where I studied law, I also studied
in the Leipzig university, I then traveled through the German region,
where I studied astronomy at the universities of Wittenberg, Rostock
(where I lost my nose in 1566 at a duel), and Basel.
Summary of major works
 Some of my astronomical achievements are my remarkable star catalogue
of over 1000 stars.
 My catalogue was not the biggest catalogue in the number of stars, but in
accuracy.
 I improved the methods used of accuracy used for observations, and
proved that comets are not objects in the atmosphere.
 I also showed irregularities in the moons orbit thanks to my rigorous
observations, night after night.
 I not only designed and built my own built instruments, but also
calibrated them and checked their accuracy periodically.
 Some of my major works include De Nova et Nullius Aevi Memoria Prius
Visa Stella ("On the New and Never Previously Seen Star.
Johannes Kepler Resume
Royale Académie de Sciences
Name
 Johannes Kepler (1571-1630)
Address
 Born in the Free Imperial City of Weil der Stadt, Germany
 Worked in Graz, Austria
Job Objective
 I would like to discover the motions of planets and their orbits.
 I would liked to develop the first astronomical system to use non-circular
orbits.
 My colleague, Tycho Brahe, and I would also like to find a new celestial
form.
Qualifications/Life Experiences
 I am a mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, and writer of science fiction
stories.
 I discovered the laws of planetary motion and worked in the field of
optics, aiding the discoveries of Galileo and I am sometimes referred to as
the “first theoretical astrophysicist.”
 I was named Imperial Mathematician through the reigns of three
Habsburg Emperors and was recommended for many teaching positions.
 I wrote many volumes of a textbook, Epitome of Copernican Astronomy.
 I also incorporated religious arguments and logical reasoning into my
work so that the basis of my work was theological.
 In 1612, I was named Provincial Mathematician in Linz.
 I am a Pythagorean mystic and consider mathematical relationships to be
at the base of nature. My beliefs differ from those of Plato and Aristotle.
Employment
 I worked as a mathematics teacher at a seminary school in Austria.
 I was an assistant to Tycho Brahe at Benatky nad Jizerou, near Prague,
court mathematician to Emperor Rudolf II, mathematics teacher in Linz,
Austria, and court astrologer to General Wallenstein.
 I was a teacher of mathematics and astronomy in Austria when I was only
23.
Education and Training
 I was introduced to astronomy at a young age and observed the Comet of
1577 nd the Lunar eclipse of 1580, recording everything I saw.
 I graduated from grammar school and Latin school and passed the
“Landexamen”, which was a statewide examination.
 I attended the lower and higher seminary in the scholarship-based
education system and enrolled in the University of Tübingen as a theology
student.
 I learned the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems under Michael Maestlin.
Summary of Major Works
 I discovered laws of planetary motion, based on books I have written,
such as Astronomia nova, Harmonice Mundi, and my famous textbook,
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy.
 I developed the first astronomical system using non-circular orbits and
published these ideas in my book, Astronomia Nova, which also included
the first and second laws of planetary motion.
 In 1604, I observed the supernova, which was named Kepler’s Star, which
is described in my book, De Stella nova in pede Serpentarii.
 In 1611, I published a monograph on the origins of snowflakes and my
publication was the first known work on the subject.
 In 1619, I published Harmonices Mundi which included the third law of
planetary motion and I completed seven volumes of my textbook in 1612.
 In 1627, I completed Rudolphine Tables, which accurately calculate future
positions of planets and predictions of rare astronomical events.
 I am most famous for the three laws of planetary motion: the elliptical
orbit law, equal-area law, and the law of periods.
 In 1631, I was the first astronomer to successfully predict a transit of
Venus.
 I also made investigations into combinatorics, geometry, snowflakes,
optics, and camera obscura.
 I was the first person to recognize the non-convez regular solids and they
are named Kepler solids in my honor and I made the association between
the Platonic solids with the classical conception of the elements.
 I described the motion of the planets by appealing to magnetism,
emanated from the sun, and invoked a universal law to explain the
behavior of bodies in heaven or earth.
 I am known for compiling prognostications from 1595-1606, and 1617-1624
and I gave the astrological prognosis for the outcome for a war.