The talisman hidden in Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg — decoded

What is it about?

Tycho Brahe published very specific dimensions of his astronomy-alchemy research institute, Uraniborg. He also gave considerable detail about the timing for the building's foundation-laying ceremony. All of these details suddenly make good sense if we understand the building as being designed on talismanic principles, designed to improve the astral influences that assist scholarly work. Talismanic principles that explain this building were given broadly by Ficino, and in finer detail for application by Agricola.

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Why is it important?

This architecture has long been explained as only vaguely symbolic, and that its meaning is impenetrable. This article corrects some mistaken assumptions and offers a clear talismanic interpretation. This explanation achieves much more than the usual generic (and unsupportable) interpretation of the architecture as Palladian.