The astronomer's secret sits in museum drawers. Tycho Brahe charted the night sky and changed our view of the cosmos, but laboratory fragments tell another story entirely. He has pushed chemical boundaries in ways historians never suspected.
Portraits of bad-boy astronomer Tycho Brahe show off his custom gold now. But historians have also pointed out a scandalous detail.
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