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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.

Tycho Brahe

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.
TYCHO BRAHE

Century Done Leipzig Made Observation One Twenty Youth
Because the region of the Celestial World is of so great and such incredible magnitude as aforesaid, and since in what has gone before it was at least generally demonstrated that this comet continued within the limits of the space of the Aether.
TYCHO BRAHE

Celestrial Gone Great Incredible Magnitude Region World
The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.
TYCHO BRAHE

Calm Wiser Mouse Wise
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.
TYCHO BRAHE

Energetic Everywhere Fatherland Hold Man Mind Steadfast Under
So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.
TYCHO BRAHE

Language Mathematical Prefer Simple Since Truth Word
There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
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Been Before never Place Sky Star
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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According Clear Contemplating Habit New Notice Sky Star Stupified Unusual
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.
TYCHO BRAHE

Aforesaid Around Before Demonstrate Divinely Gone Govern Incredible Region Since Such Whirl
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
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
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.
TYCHO BRAHE

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
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
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
May I not seem to have lived in vain.
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Lived May Seem Vain
There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.
TYCHO BRAHE

Eccentric Mars Orbit Something

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