@qoncept (qoncept) posted a new topic, subject "Tycho Brahe". It read:

   In my physics class my senior year in high school, our teacher went in to a much more elaborate description of Tycho's death. He got himself in to a drinking contest with someone and died when his bladder burst. Any truth to this?

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@Arnold_Winkelried (Arnold Winkelried) replied

    Yet another theory! qoncept, take a gander at this thread: Tycho Brahe's untimely, but hilarious, death

So @Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker (Earl Snake-Hips Tucker) replied

    FWIW, I read that the story about Brahe dying as the result of not wanting to leave the table did not appear until over 50 years after his death.

So @Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker (Earl Snake-Hips Tucker) replied

    What I meant to say was that while it did not dispute the ruptured bladder story, it cast doubt on the _cause_ of it, and that Brahe had apparently been suffering from some urinary tract infection even before the feast.


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