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 . . . .
TYCHO BRAHEThe 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.
More Tycho Brahe Quotes
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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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And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
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So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.
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An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
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It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.
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May I not seem to have lived in vain.
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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 mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.
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There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
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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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Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.
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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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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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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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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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