Tycho Brahe in front of his house in Copenhagen. Tycho Brahe left Hven in 1597, bringing some of his instruments with him to Copenhagen, and entrusting others to a caretaker on the island. Shortly before leaving, he completed his star catalogue giving the positions of 1,000 stars. After some unsuccessful attempts at influencing the king to let him return, he finally acquiesced to exile, but he wrote his most famous poem "Elegy to Dania" in which he chided Denmark for not appreciating his genius. The instruments he had used in Uraniborg and Stjerneborg were depicted and described in detail in his book
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