Mercury poisoning was not the cause of Tycho Brahe’s death

In 2010, the body a Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546–1601) was exhumed from a tomb in the Church of Our Lady before Týn in Old Town Square in Prague to authenticate the cause of his death. Brahe’s death only eleven days after the onset of a sudden illness has been a mystery for over four hundred years. Over the centuries, a variety of myths and theories about his death were propounded. The most persistent theory has been that mercury poisoning caused Brahe’s death.
After studying samples for two years taken during the exhumation, the team of researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark, the University of Southern Denmark and the ASCR’s Nuclear Physics Institute came to the unanimous conclusion that Brahe did not die of mercury poisoning.