Name: 【TED-Ed】醜聞纏身的天文學家提喬-布拉赫--丹-溫克爾。 (【TED-Ed】Tycho Brahe, the scandalous astronomer - Dan Wenkel)
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Duration: 4 min 8 s

How do you imagine the life of a scientist?

你是怎麼想像一位科學家的生活？

也許對某些人是如此， 但第谷·布拉赫卻不是這樣。

The 16th century scholar who accurately predicted planetary motion

他是16世紀能夠精確地 預測行星運動的學者，

and cataloged hundreds of stars before the telescope had been invented

在望遠鏡被發明之前， 他編錄了數以百計的星星，

Tycho Brahe was born in 1546 to Danish nobles,

西元1546年，第谷·布拉赫 出生在丹麥貴族之家，

but at age two was kidnapped to be raised by his uncle instead.

但在他兩歲時， 伯父擅自將他帶走並扶養長大，

Tycho was supposed to have a career in law,

but after witnessing a solar eclipse at thirteen,

但在十三歲時，目睹日蝕的景象

who taught him the art of celestial observation.

By the time Tycho's uncle sent him off to Germany a few years later,

在那之後的幾年， 第谷的伯父將他送去了德國，

而他完全失去了對法律研究的興趣，

and taking careful notes of the night skies.

It wasn't long before his own measurements

were more accurate than those in his books.

While in Germany, Tycho got into a bit of an argument

在德國的一次聚會上，第谷和另一位學生

and Tycho losing a good-sized chunk of his nose.

而第谷失去了相當大塊的鼻子。

a realistic prosthetic of gold and silver

including a building-sized quadrant for measuring

The publication of this discovery granted him rock star status

這發現一公布， 他的地位就有如搖滾巨星般，

and offers of scientific positions all over Europe.

歐洲各地都邀他擔任科學職位。

the King of Denmark offered to give Tycho

his own personal island with a state of the art observatory.

一座有先進觀測所的私人小島。

Called Uraniborg and costing about 1% of Denmark's entire budget,

稱作Uraniborg， 花費是丹麥全國預算的百分之一，

這觀測所比一般城堡有的還多，

rooms for family, staff and visiting royalty,

給家人、員工及來訪皇室成員的房間，

and an underground section just for all the giant instruments.

還有為了放置所有巨型儀器的地下室。

Tycho also built a papermill and printing press

還有一間研究煉金術的實驗室。

所以第谷雇用了一個千里眼侏儒，

studying and partying for about 20 years.

進行研究和舉行派對有20年之久。

But after falling out with the new Danish King,

但在和新的丹麥國王鬧翻之後，

he took up an invitation from the Holy Roman Emperor

他接受了神聖羅馬帝國皇帝的邀請，

to become the official imperial astronomer in Prague.

在布拉格成為了官方的帝國天文學家。

There, he met another famous astronomer Johannes Kepler,

在那裡，他遇見了另一位 著名的天文學家約翰內斯·克卜勒，

and the two often got into heated arguments.

1601年，第谷出席了一場正式宴會，

but was too polite to leave the table to relieve himself,

as he quickly developed a bladder infection

Tycho still had a few surprises up his sleeve.

第谷仍藏有令人想不到的東西。

When his body was exhumed and studied in 2010,

當他的遺體在2010年被挖掘出來研究時，

that he wore a more casual brass nose instead.

to contain unusually high levels of toxic mercury.

含有異常高濃度的有毒物質汞。

Was it from a medicine used to treat his bladder infection?

那是用來治療他膀胱炎的藥物嗎？

還是他做煉金術實驗所殘留的物質？

Or did his quarrelsome coworker Johannes Kepler

或者是他好爭吵的同事 約翰內斯·克卜勒

but the next time you think scientists lead boring lives,

但下次如果你覺得 科學家的生活都很無趣，

A fascinating story may be just beyond the tip of your nose.

迷人的故事也許就會 出現在你的想像之外。

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【TED-Ed】醜聞纏身的天文學家提喬-布拉赫--丹-溫克爾。 (【TED-Ed】Tycho Brahe, the scandalous astronomer - Dan Wenkel)

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