{"product_id":"tycho-brahe-john-louis-emil-dreyer-9781108068710","title":"Tycho Brahe: A Picture of Scientific Life and Work in the Sixteenth Century","description":"Famous for his metal prosthetic nose, and for being associated with 'unlucky' days in Scandinavian folklore, Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) made the most accurate naked-eye astronomical measurements of his day. Cataloguing more than 1,000 new stars, his stellar and planetary observations helped lay the foundations of early modern astronomy. John Louis Emil Dreyer (1852-1926) was a fellow Dane, but he spent much of his working life in Ireland. When he was fourteen, he had read a book about Brahe and this inspired him to 'be an astronomer and nothing else'. First published in 1890, Dreyer's biography of his hero remained the definitive work for more than a century. He sets out to illuminate not simply the life of his subject, but also the lives and work of Brahe's contemporaries and the progress of science in the sixteenth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Louis Emil Dreyer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1108068715\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781108068710\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/13\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 434\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.97d","brand":"John Louis Emil Dreyer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47423509594367,"sku":"9781108068710","price":59.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5e94fc84-b516-4571-b068-e23fa55b66d1.jpg?v=1761528650","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/tycho-brahe-john-louis-emil-dreyer-9781108068710","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}