How did Tycho Brahe contribute Kepler's laws?

Answer 1

Tycho, for the most part, just gathered a vast amount of data of the planets and their movements. He didn't really do much analyzing of the data to come up with laws or theories. That was done after his death by his assistant, Johannes Kepler, who took that very data and discovered alot about how the planets move and orbit the sun.

But Tycho's contribution was significant because he devised ways of measuring the positions of planets and other objects that were more accurate than ever before. These allowed Kepler to do better calcuations than before and discover the small differences between the old model of planetary orbits and the elliptical orbits that Kepler discovered and passed on to later scientists.

Answer 2

Tycho Brahe devised precise instruments to observe planetary motions such as that of Mars, that later enabled Kepler to formulate the laws of planetary motion.

He provided evidence against the immutable nature of heavens by studying stellar parallax and parallax of a comet. He also gave a new model of celestial sphere that lay between Ptolemaic and Copernican model of the universe.

Answer 3

Tycho Brahe's biggest contribution was the amount of observational data he amassed. He hired Kepler to analyze the data to produce the Rudolfian tables. With the years of data, Kepler was able to prove that planetary orbits were elliptical rather than circular.

Answer 4

Tycho Brahe was incorrect on his theory (he was Geocentric and believed that the Earth was in the center of the solar system) however his model for how the planets moved was extremely accurate (except for the positioning of the sun and the Earth) because he used his own improved tools. His most important contribution was, thus, he found exact locations of KNOWN planets.

Answer 5

Kepler didn't "write" the laws, and they aren't "laws", and they weren't HIS laws; Kepler observed the motions of the planets, and wrote a description of how things might work to explain his observations.

It turns out that Kepler's observations and his calculations have been, for the most part, pretty accurate and quite useful in explaining how the planets (and by extension, ALL planetary bodies) behave. Since he was the first to formulate these explanations, we've given them his name, but he didn't CAUSE them, he just EXPLAINED them.

Answer 6

Tycho Brahe's exquisitely detailed and painstakingly accurate observations of the planets and their motions provided the observational data that Kepler used to create his theories of planetary motion.

But neither Kepler nor Brahe was able to come up with a mathematical model as to how the planets moved and what forces kept them that way. That was the enormous contribution of Isaac newton, whose invention of calculus and the principle of universal gravitation provided a solid theoretical explanation of how the solar system works.

Answer 7

After Tycho's death, Kepler spent nine years working with Tycho's observational

data, and drew his "laws" out of the data that Tycho had spent his life collecting.

Answer 8

i have no idea whatsoever.