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This article describes a trip to the Swedish island of Ven, where Tycho Brahe had his estate in the sixteenth century. There, visitors can see the Tycho Brahe Museum, a reconstruction of one of Brahe’s astronomical observatories, and much beautiful scenery.
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Catherine Westfall is the Samuel von Pufendorf Visiting Fellow at the University of Lund, Sweden and a visiting associate professor at Michigan State University.
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Westfall, C. Adventure in Ven: Visiting Tycho’s Island. Phys. Perspect. 17, 251–258 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-015-0165-9
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00016-015-0165-9
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