Portraits of bad-boy astronomer Tycho Brahe show off his custom gold nose. But historians have also pointed out a scandalous detail.
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding...
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.
Our ancient ancestors had their own habits; some were strange and bewildering, others were nearly identical to those we practice today. Looking back through history, one might be surprised to find the daily lives of...
“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding...
"'This is why alchemy exists,' the boy said. 'So that everyone will search for his treasure, find it, and then want to be better than he was in his former life. Lead will play its...
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