There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
TYCHO BRAHEWhen 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.
More Tycho Brahe Quotes
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It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.
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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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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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An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
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There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.
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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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The body of the Earth, large, sluggish and inapt for motion, is not to be disturbed by movement (especially three movements), any more than the Aetherial Lights [stars] are to be shifted.
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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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And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
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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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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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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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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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May I not seem to have lived in vain.
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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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