Astronomer Tycho Brahe ‘Not Poisoned’
Tycho Brahe (Painting by Eduard Ender/Wiki Commons)
New research suggests that Tycho Brahe, the Danish astronomer who died more than 400 years ago, was not felled by mercury poisoning.
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