Tycho Brahe

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…The following night, October 24, Tycho was relatively calm; the fever dizziness faded but the sickness had taken so much of his powers that the end came in only a few hours. Tycho became fifty-four years and ten months, a short time thinking of the age he could have achieved, but long taken into account his brilliant scientific achievements, the rumors of which will live, as long as the studies of the stars will fascinate mankind.