Tag: funding
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The far-side of scientific funding: why you should publish your rejected grant application
When the astronomer Tycho Brahe gifted his book Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica (1598) to the Republic of Venice, he strongly hoped that it would move the city to write out a decree supporting his travels for astronomical observations. Tycho had left his motherland Denmark after the new ruler Christian IV withdrew his patronage of the research…