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His jocular habits, too, sometimes led him into disagreeable positions. When the Duke of Brunswick was dining with him at Uraniburg, the Duke said, towards the end of the dinner, that, as it was late, he must be going. Tycho jocularly remarked that this could not be done without his permission; upon which the Duke rose and left the party, without taking leave of his host.
The parasites of royalty saw themselves eclipsed in the bright renown which Tycho had acquired, and every new visit to Uraniburg by a foreign prince supplied fresh fuel to the rancour which had long been smothering in their breasts.
This license was accompanied with the following high eulogium on his abilities and learning: "Nor have I become acquainted with these things only from the relation of others, or from a bare inspection of your works, but I have seen then before my own eyes, and have heard them with my own ears, in your residence at Uraniburg, and have drawn them from the various learned and agreeable conversations which I there held with you, and which even now affect my mind to such a degree, that it is difficult to determine whether I recollect them with greater pleasure or admiration; as I now willingly testify, by this license, to present and to future generations," &c.
The Duke of Brunswick had, in 1590, paid a visit to Uraniburg, and had particularly admired an antique brass statue of Mercury, about a cubit long, which Tycho had placed in the roof of the hypocaust or central crypt of the Stiern-berg observatory. By means of a concealed mechanism, it moved round in a circular orbit.
In the year 1591, when Christian IV. had reached his 14th year, he expressed a desire to pay a visit to Uraniburg.
It has been said by some of the biographers of Tycho, that the Landgrave of Hesse visited Uraniburg about this period; but this opinion is not correct, as it was only his astronomer and optician, Rothman, who made a journey to Huen in 1591 for the recovery of his health.
This office had been usually conferred on the King's Chancellor. It would be an unprofitable task, and one by no means interesting to the general reader, to give a detailed history of the various astronomical observations and discoveries which were made by Tycho during the twenty years that he spent at Uraniburg.
It contained at that time only one village, with about forty inhabitants. Having surveyed his new territory, Tycho resolved to build a magnificent tower in the centre of the elevated plain, which he resolved to call Uraniburg, or The City of the Heavens.
Tycho's Labours do honour to his Country Death of Frederick II. James VI. of Scotland visits Tycho at Uraniburg Christian IV. visits Tycho The Duke of Brunswick's visit to Tycho The Danish Nobility, jealous of his fame, conspire against him He is compelled to quit Uraniburg And to abandon his Studies Cruelty of the Minister Walchendorp Tycho quits Denmark with his Family and Instruments Is hospitably received by Count Rantzau Who introduces him to the Emperor Rudolph The Emperor invites him to Prague He gives him a Pension of 3000 Crowns And the Castle of Benach as a Residence and an Observatory Kepler visits Tycho Who obtains for him the Appointment of Mathematician to Rudolph.
This observatory, which he called Stiern-berg, or the mountain, of the stars, consisted of several crypts, separated by solid walls, and to these there was a subterranean passage from the laboratory in Uraniburg.
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