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When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such perplexity by the unbelievability of the thing that I began to doubt the faith of my own eyes.

Tycho Brahe

And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
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Leave Much Offer Possession Scientist Stemen Too Worry
One that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.
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Age Before Begin never One Previously Seen Since World
Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.
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Author Clear Devise Quite Say Solid Sphere
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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Energetic Everywhere Fatherland Hold Man Mind Steadfast Under
When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such perplexity by the unbelievability of the thing that I began to doubt the faith of my own eyes.
TYCHO BRAHE

Before Ever Kind Myself Satisfied Star Tone
An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
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Astronomer Cosmopolitian Expect Ignorant Must Service Value
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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Accomplish Complete Esther Explanation Inform Narrower Planet Unless Widest
Lastly, the star became like Saturn, and there will finally come a time of want, death, imprisonment and all sorts of sad things.
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Become Come Finally Imprisonment Lastly Sad Saturn Sort Star Thing Time
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.
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Body Full Hard Heaven Impervious Machine Real Sphere Various
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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Effect First Given Jupiter Like Mars Pleasing Star Supernova Tycho Venus
There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
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Been Before never Place Sky Star
And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
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Him Leave Much Other Possession Scientist Statement Worry
Behold, directly overhead, a certain strange star was suddenly seen . . . Amazed, and as if astonished and stupified, I stood still
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Behold Certain Directly Overhead Seen Star Strange Suddenly War
For those [observations] that I made in Leipzig in my youth and up to my 21st year, I usually call childish and of doubtful value. Those that I took later until my 28th year [i.e., until 1574] I call juvenile and fairly serviceable.
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Century Done Leipzig Made Observation One Twenty Youth
So that such ideas are opposed both to physical principles and to the authority of the Holy Writ which many time: confirms the stability of the Earth (as we shall discuss more fully elsewhere).
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Authority Confirm Earth Elsewhere Idea Many Oppose Physical Time
From his observations, he concluded that it [Tycho’s supernova] was not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor, whether these be generated beneath the Moon or above the Moon, but that it is a star shining in the firmament itself.
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Conclude Fiery Kind Meteor Observation Some Supernova Tycho

When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such perplexity by the unbelievability of the thing that I began to doubt the faith of my own eyes.

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