Rotten in the State of Denmark: Was Tycho Brahe Murdered by a Contract Killer? »

Posted By idyll 11 months, 2 weeks ago in Science & Technology

Over 400 years after the death of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, scientists in Prague are preparing to exhume his body. Was Europe's most renowned scholar poisoned with mercury? A Danish scholar claims to have decoded the murderer's diary.

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