There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
TYCHO BRAHEThere is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.
More Tycho Brahe Quotes
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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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And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
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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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One that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.
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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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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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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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An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
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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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So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.
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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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There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.
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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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It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.
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