Show Branes vor in Astronomy It was the great eclipse of Aug 21 1060 that turned Tycho Bralio Into an astronomer lie was In his 14th year at tho time a Danish boy of noble or igin and had been destined first for tho army and then for tho law But tho accuracy with which tho ecllpso was predicted Impressed him with the belief that astronomy was a divine thing and thenceforward ho devoted his life to It The debt of astronomy to Tycho Brahe not only for his own work but as the man who shaped the genius of Kepler can scarcely be overestimated 4 |