There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.
TYCHO BRAHEFor 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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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 mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.
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Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.
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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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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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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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It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.
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There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
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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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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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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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An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
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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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May I not seem to have lived in vain.
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And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
TYCHO BRAHE
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