Tychonis Brahe Dani Epistolarvm astronomicarvm libri.

Brahe, Tycho

doi:10.5479/sil.145109.39088002915338

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“…Tycho Brahe rocketed to fame with the publication of De Stella Nova (1573) describing a supernova; he thought he was seeing the birth of a new star. Suddenly, the heavens were not so immutable.…”

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Et Tu, Crystallographer? Murder Charges Against Close-Packing Pioneers Evaluated

Kahr

2010

Crystal Growth & Design

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are recognized as the authors of the close-packing conjecture, the intuitive notion that there is no denser ensemble of congruent spheres than face-centered cubic packing. They are bound not only by the close-packing conjecture, arguably the first principle of the science of crystal structure determination, but also by notorious accusations of murder. In 1971, the eminent historian Samuel Eliot Morison alleged that Harriot beheaded Wingina, an Algonquian chieftain, and in a popular biography in 2004, Kepler was accused of poisoning his mentor, the astronomer Tycho Brahe. Herein, the charges are evaluated on behalf of the progenitors of the science of structural crystallography.

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