In the fall of 1601, Prague hosted a lavish royal feast. Among the guests sat Tycho Brahe, the Danish astronomer whose precise star charts had reshaped science. The night was long, the wine endless, ...
A famed astronomer suffered a horrifying death after his bladder burst during a decadent feast - stopping him from urinating and leaving him in agony. Tycho Brahe, famed for charting the heavens with ...