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The scientific revolution in the first half of the seventeenth century,pioneered by figures such as Harvey, Galileo, Gassendi, Kepler and Descartes,was disseminated to the northernmost countries in Europe with considerabledelay. In this essay I examine how and when Galileo's new ideas in physics andastronomy became known in Denmark, and I compare the reception with the one inSweden. It turns out that Galileo was almost exclusively known for hissensational use of the telescope to unravel the secrets of the heavens, meaningthat he was predominantly seen as an astronomical innovator and advocate of theCopernican world system. Danish astronomy at the time was however based onTycho Brahe's view of the universe and therefore hostile to Copernican and, byimplication, Galilean cosmology. Although Galileo's telescope attracted muchattention, it took about thirty years until a Danish astronomer actually usedthe instrument for observations. By the 1640s Galileo was generally admired forhis astronomical discoveries, but no one in Denmark drew the consequence thatthe dogma of the central Earth, a fundamental feature of the Tychonian worldpicture, was therefore incorrect.

Galileo in early modern Denmark, 1600-1650