h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Apologies for not responding sooner, been on hols this week. Working in order:

Post 12: Shagbark
I've added a small paragraph in with your info (reworded it a bit so I hope you don't mind), though the date I had was 1597 not 1599 so I've called it the late 1590's.

Post 14: GB
Solar eclipse - fixed.
order of death - fixed.
Links - added.

Posts 16-20 GB and Skankyrich.
Thank you I knew parallax wasn't quite right, but was finding it hard to explain. The celestial sphere link does go into it a bit more, but I understand I need to put more in this entry. I'll go away and try to come up with something.

Generally, I'd agree with you about using his surname to refer to him, but most sources call him Tycho as explained in footnote 1. I'll leave it for now, if the majority request it I'll change it, but I'd rather not.

what god of Chaos?

For ease of loading the entry: Entry: Tycho Brahe - Astronomer - A16311089 Author: Rockhound - U889233 Flea Market rescue: Entry: Tycho de Brahe - How the truth can be stranger than fiction - A708536 Author: Portable Chaos - U171738 Old PR thread:http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/F85507?thread=171482

I prefer it as Tycho

Sorry - I often miss footnotes.

Traveller in Time on his head
"< http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/xtra/Bios/tycho.html >
>>Honors include naming famous and conspicuous Moon crater Tycho (43.4S, 11.1W, 102 km diameter, in 1935) and Mars crater Tycho Brahe (49.8S, 213.9W, 106 km diameter, in 1973). Asteroid (1677) Tycho Brahe was discovered on September 6, 1940 by Y. Vaisala at Turku observatory and provisionally designated 1940 RO; other pre-discovery and later independent observations were designated 1928 SP, 1935 FL, 1952 QN1, 1952 SD1 and A916 UA.

The Mars crater is not as W*k* states named Tycho but 'Tycho Brahe' and you could mention the asteroid as well.


'Tycho, god of chaos' I found in an paper encyclopedia, I have some doubts if there ever has been a religion with such god as I can not find anything about it on the WEB. I did extensive research about the name Tycho before as I have a 'nephew' named after the crater. "

Thanks Traveller in Time - I'll amend that when I add the parallax in.

here is an interesting addition to his legacy: The first Astronomer Royal at Greenwich John Flamsteed identified with him calling him the 'noble Tycho' Flamsteed had apparently also been
employed as 'Imperial Mathematician in Prague' and when setting up the office at Greenwich fashioned the image of the occupant of the Royal Observatory after Tycho calling him
'the greatest Prince among Astronomers'
he believed he shared Tycho's judgemernt that an secure set of reliable measurements was of higher value than astronomical theory.
He therefor tried to make Greenwich a place where he could carry on the work that Tycho had begun.
Flamsteed also related to the tribulations which both astronomers had faced and compared his chief detractor(Halley) to the one who had led to Tycho leaving Denmark.
this according to
http://www.mhs.ox.ac.uk/tycho/catfm.htm?flam
Note also Flamsteed never referred to him as the noble Brahe
it was always Tycho which he called him.

I also did a little search engine work on the God of Chaos none of his names apply here.
I find in Egypt the god of chaos was Set or seti
in Norse Mythology the god chaos and mischief was Loki
in greek mythology the goddess of discord and chaos was Eris
also Chaos is the proper name of the father of Erebos
I think it safe to say you can leave this out of the article.

I'll name a fair few people who belive that the god of chaos and mischief is shaped like a paper-clip with eyes

I think you're confusing him with the Patron Saint of Passive-Agressive Americans.

This looks ready to go to me, are you happy with it Rockhound?

I was hoping he would at least have one sentence saying
Tycho also set the pattern which Flamsteed used in setting up the Greenwich Observatory. This could go between the first and second Paragraphs of Legacy. Of course rockhound is the main author and perhaps that researcher doesn't want to do any more substantive changes to the content.

Hi GB - not quite ready, I still haven't had chance to sort out the parralax thing

Shagbark - I'm having a think about Flamsteed, it would flesh out the legacy a bit.

Hopefully get onto this tonight when I get in from w*rk

Traveller in Time suddenly finding some inventions were chinese
"One of the original astronimical insstruments are the chinese armillary spheres, a device to aim at the plar star and by looking through a tube you could read the angles on some slider rings. This very instrument is what Tycho used for his observations.

Beeing one of the first eurpean users he could identify several unique objects as well asa calculate their relative motion accurate. "

The intro says he was a moose owner.
The later paragraph says he had a pet elk.
Which was it ? Or did he have both at different times?

Moose is just another name for elk. But it might be worth calling it "elk" throughout, since that is the normal European name.

THis is an excellent entry. I can't add anything to the content - it seems very comprehensive. A few minor formatting and spelling points:

Please write dates in the format 11 November, 1572 with a comma after the month.

had been forecast on 21 August 1560 --> had been forecast for 21 August, 1560

night after night; and -- change semicolon to comma

resulting in duel that left --> resulting in a duel that left

relative to it's background --> relative to its background

proved the motion of the planets around the Sun however he could not bring himself -->
proved the motion of the planets around the Sun, but he could not bring himself

'Astrologers do not bind man's will -- remove the quote sign at the start of this

late 1590's --> late 1590s

Issac Newton --> Isaac Newton

G

American Elk (Cervus Elephus Nelsoni) are more closely related to the stag.
I didn't realise that in Europe the Moose
(Ceridae Capraolinae Alces) is considered an elk.
this will be confusing to the american reader.

here is a picture of alces alces
http://www.hlasek.com/alces_alces_6630.html
since american readers would call this a moose
and call the wapiti an elk it would probably by better to use the term moose throughout the article.

Here is a picture of whatAmericans consider an Elk
http://www.fredvanwijk.nl/Indian%20summer/pagina's/Burlende%20wapiti/%2C%20yellowstone.html
As both these and the animal from the previous post share the same habitat (in Yellowstone Park) No ranger there would use the terms interchangably.

That last link doesn't seem to work. Here is another one.
http://darekk.com/rockies/elk.htm
We would definitely say these were NOT moose.
Also the illustration in the article on moose does not look like a moose.