Tycho Brahe Planetarium Tycho Brahe Planetarium The Tycho Brahe Planetarium is located in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the southern end of Skt. Jørgens Sø. It is named after astronomer Tycho Brahe. It was designed by MAA Knud Munk and opened on November 1, 1989. The planetarium is built where the theater Saltlageret was previously located. The foundation stone was placed on February 22, 1988, and the planetarium opened on November 1, 1989. The financial basis for building the planetarium was a 50,000,000 DKK donation by Bodil and Helge Petersen to the Urania foundation, which administered the construction of the planetarium. In the Dome Theatre
John Craig (physician) John Napier of Merchiston the hint which led to his discovery of logarithms. Anthony à Wood states that This story may not be independently verifiable. Napier himself informed Tycho Brahe, via Craig, of his discovery, some twenty years before it was made public. John Craig (physician) John Craig M.D. (died 1620) was a Scottish physician, known also as an astronomer. He was physician to James VI of Scotland, and accompanied him to England. He also corresponded with Tycho Brahe, and associated with John Napier. He was born in Scotland, the son of an Edinburgh tailor and merchant Robert Craig and