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The mystery surrounding the death of the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe in Prague in 1601 may now finally be solved.
The Czech authorities have given their permission for a group of Danish and Czech experts to open Brahe’s grave at the Church of Our Lady in front of Týn in Prague and carry out analyses of his bones, hair and clothes. It is hoped that the analyses will determine whether Brahe died, as has generally been thought, of uremia or whether he died as a result of mercury poisoning in a murder plot.
