Showing posts with label Tycho Brahe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tycho Brahe. Show all posts

Friday, December 3, 2010

Murder! Intrigue! Astronomers! Hit Men! Prosthetic Noses!

The body of long dead Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) was exhumed in Prague last month and the mystery of the cause of his death was dug up with him. Not to mention the potential for a blockbuster film or, more likely, a book. A book I would love to read. Check out this NY Times story and tell me this is not a bestseller waiting to be written. If I had the smarts and the know-how, I'd do it myself. You know the old saw: truth is stranger than fiction? Well, here's another proof of it.

According to the Times: It's "Amadeus" meets "DaVinci Code" meets "Hamlet", featuring a deadly struggle for the secret of the universe...

Sounds like a monster idea to me.