Mercur Miner | 1905-10-25 | Page 3 | Local News

Uraitea ,,.... m astronomy. It was the gieat tcllpse of Aug. 21, 1BC0. that turned Tjeho llrahe Into an astronomer. He was In his 14th year at the time, a Danish boy of noble origin, or-igin, and had been destined first for tho nruiy and then for Hie law. Hut tho accuracy with which the ocllpso was predicted impreg.ed him with tho belief that astronomy was a divine thing, and thenceforward ho devotod his life to it. The debt ot astronomy to Tycho llrahe, not only for his own work, but ns the limn who shaped tho genhu of Kepler, can scarcoly bo overestimated.