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  • Tycho Brahe: a Danish astronomer → the fourth in a list of scholars representing the Seven Liberal Arts
  • Tycho Brache: Arabian mathematician of the late 16th century
  • up Tycho Brahe Terrace: Joyce's First-Draft version of this phrase
  • Tycho: a prominent crater on the Moon
  • crescent: the Moon within a few days of new-moon
  • brache: (1) an arm of the sea (2) the part of a suit of armour that covers the arm (3) a bitch that hunts by scent (4) a breach, breaking, fracture