Donald Niedekker’s “Strange and Perfect Account From the Permafrost” offers an ambitious view of human history and is full of ...

Brahe wrote to Kepler that he took “unusual pleasure” in the concepts laid out in it, and invited Kepler to visit, then to work with him. Collaborating with Brahe, however, was frustrating.

Renaissance astronomer Tycho Brahe, known for his studies of the heavens, was also a alchemist. A new study of glass shards reveals what Brahe was working with in his lab.

The covert nature of Brahe’s work was common among alchemists of the Renaissance, who kept their knowledge close to the vest. Today, only a few of his alchemical recipes remain. Uraniborg ...