T. Brahe’s system
Danish nobleman, astronomer and alchemist Tycho Brahe‘s (Dan. Tyge Ottesen Brahe, 1546–1601) solar system model.
T. Brahe did not support M. Copernicus’s (1476–1543) heliocentric model of solar system and in 1588 he proposed his own model combining ideas of both – K. Ptolemaeus’s (II c.) and M. Copernicus’s – solar systems. He thought that planets move around the Sun, while the Sun and the Moon travel around the Earth. He kept the Earth in the centre of the universe. The sphere of fixed stars was situated far away in the cosmos around the centre of the universe – the Earth.
