a. [f. as prec. + -IC.] Of or pertaining to the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (died 1601), or to his system of astronomy.
1670. Flamsteed, in Rigaud, Corr. Sci. Men (1841), II. 97. I had first notice of this star’s varying from the Tychonic canon.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., Pref. A 4. The other, Vulgarly so called, Systems of the World … the Ptolemaick, Tychonick, and Copernican.
1715. trans. Gregory’s Astron. (1726), I. 187. The same Forces that are required in the Semi-Tychonic System, are required also in the Tychonic, since the same Motion of the Sun and Planets are supposed in both.
1870. R. A. Proctor, in Eng. Mech., 4 March, 598/3. His ellipses were … as available for the Tychonic system as for the Copernican.
