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Science in Early Modern Europe

By |2018-04-13T01:12:09+00:00August 7th, 2017|Modern Europe, Science|

Early modern science: Tycho Brahe (He looks funny because his nose got cut off in a duel and he wore a false one made of brass.) New observatories in Europe Europe's colonialism and slave trading brought a lot of money to Europe. By 1600 AD the fashion for building new observatories that had swept from China west [...]

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