Tycho Brahe actually made out of brass after chemically analyzing a small bone sample from the nose from the body exhumed in 2010. In April 1567, Tycho returned home from his travels, with a firm intention of becoming a scientist. Although he had been expected to go into politics and the law, like most of his kinsmen, and although Denmark was still at war with Sweden, his family supported his decision to dedicate himself to the sciences. His father wanted him to take up law, but Tycho was allowed to travel to Rostock and then to Augsburg (where he built a great
Tycho Brahe days The Coligny calendar also identifies certain calendar dates as lucky or unlucky, and the Roman "fasti" marks many days and parts of others as "dies nefasti", unsuited for the conduct of public business. Contemporary North America preserves a tradition that Friday the 13th is an unlucky day. It has been called a "pervasive form of divination" that "is found in all societies which regulate their days and nights in calendric systems." The received idea concerning the origin of Tycho Brahe days was that "Tycho Brahe, the celebrated Danish astronomer of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, was very superstitious, considering certain