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Show Brahe's Work In Astronomy. It was the meat eclipse ol Aug. 21, l,"t;o. that turned Tjcho ill alio Into an asttonomer. He was in bis llth year at the time, a Danish boy ot noble or-IkIii. or-IkIii. and had been destined llrst lor the army and then lor the law. Hut tho ucr-urau) with which the eclipse was predicted hiiptessed him with the belief that asttonomy was a dlvluo tiling, and thencerorwaid he devoted bis life to It. The debt of astronomy to Tycho Ilralie, not only for IiI.h own wotk, but as tho man who shaped the genius of Kepler, can scarcely bo overestimated. |