{"id":338,"date":"2016-02-08T17:06:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T22:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impossibleensign.wordpress.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2016-02-08T17:06:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T22:06:03","slug":"a-star-is-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my.dev.vanderbilt.edu\/sced3890pedagogy\/2016\/02\/a-star-is-born\/","title":{"rendered":"A Star Is Born"},"content":{"rendered":"

For this assignment I chose to focus on Tycho Brahe:<\/p>\n

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Tycho Brahe<\/a>\u00a0(14DEC1546-24OCT1601)\u00a0is arguably most important to astronomy (and physics) because of his observation of a supernova (<\/span>SN 1572<\/a>– which he called a \u201cnew star\u201d). Before this observation people still clung to the Aristotelian view of the universe (and physics), Aristotle\u2019s influence in other fields such as medicine and politics had already been weakening, but letting go of his physics and astronomy proved difficult (not because people didn\u2019t realize his physics was wrong, they didn\u2019t have anything to replace it with). Aristotle said that the \u201ccelestial sphere\u201d was unchanging; however the sudden appearance of a \u201cnew star\u201d proved this to be wrong. Tycho of course had other contributions to astronomy-including his many recorded observations, which he was able to use to correct many calculations-including the Copernican tables (a goal of his after seeing a conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn and realizing that the existing values were off by days). Tycho also had his missteps; he proposed a model for the solar system (<\/span>The Tychonic System<\/a>)that tried to conserve geocentrism by having the other planets orbit the sun which would in turn orbit the earth.<\/span><\/p>\n

To put Brahe in context, here are two major historical events that occurred during Tycho\u2019s lifetime:<\/p>\n

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  1. 1553: Mary Tudor<\/a>\u00a0(\u201cBloody Mary\u201d- daughter of King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon) after being disinherited by her half-brother due to fears that her accession<\/a>\u00a0to the throne would bring about the reinstatement of Catholicism, she deposed of Lady Jane Grey (named successor by her brother), had her beheaded and became the first queen regnant of England.<\/li>\n
  2. 1580: Formation of the Iberian Union as a result of the Portuguese succession crisis of 1580<\/a>\u00a0in which King Sebastian I died in the Battle of Alc\u00e1cer Quibir and left no immediate heirs. Although technically third in line for the throne, Phillip II of Spain was able to convince the Portuguese nobility to support him as a union with Habsburg Spain (then owner of many new world territories that had many natural resources) would be economically beneficial to them.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    For further context, here is\u00a0one other famous historical figure who lived at the same time as Tycho:<\/p>\n

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    Ren\u00e9 Descartes<\/a>\u00a0(31MAR1596-11FEB1650), best known for his quote: \u201cI think, therefore I am,\u201d has been dubbed the father of modern western philosophy, but he was also a mathematician (father of analytical geometry and namesake of the Cartesian coordinate system).<\/p>\n

    I love this assignment! I often find that when I learn about history or even other countries in modern times, I have a tendency to compartmentalize them into these separate spaces that are completely independent of each other. This has been a great opportunity to try to put the pieces together and to realize that even though big events seem to occur in isolation they are all interconnected and concurrent. Hopefully this post has helped you as much as it has helped me!<\/p>\n

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