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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An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
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The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.
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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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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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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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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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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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May I not seem to have lived in vain.
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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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When 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.
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So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.
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There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.
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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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