That the machine of Heaven is not a hard and impervious body full of various real spheres, as up to now has been believed by most people.
TYCHO BRAHEThe star [Tycho’s supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there will next come a period of wars, seditions, captivity and death of princes, and destruction of cities, together with dryness and fiery meteors in the air, pestilence, and venomous snakes.
More Tycho Brahe Quotes
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An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
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The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.
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Behold, directly overhead, a certain strange star was suddenly seen . . . Amazed, and as if astonished and stupified, I stood still
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it seems that the complete explanation of the whole matter is not given unless we are also informed within narrower limits in what part of the widest Aether, and next to which orbs of the Planets [the comet] traces its path, and by what course it accomplishes this.
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It will be proved that it extends everywhere, most fluid and simple, and nowhere presents obstacles as was formerly held, the circuits of the Planets being wholly free and without the labour and whirling round of any real spheres at all, being divinely governed under a given law.
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There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.
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With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.
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It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.
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One that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.
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When, according to habit, I was contemplating the stars in a clear sky, I noticed a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy . . . .
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There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
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And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
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Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.
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So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.
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The star [Tycho’s supernova] was at first like Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became like Mars, there will next come a period of wars, seditions, captivity and death of princes, and destruction of cities, together with dryness and fiery meteors in the air, pestilence, and venomous snakes.
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