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Tycho Brahe

Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.
TYCHO BRAHE

God Star Study Teacher
So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.
TYCHO BRAHE

Language Mathematical Prefer Simple Since Truth Word
And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
TYCHO BRAHE

Him Leave Much Other Possession Scientist Statement Worry
An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
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Astronomer Cosmopolitian Expect Ignorant Must Service Value
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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Energetic Everywhere Fatherland Hold Man Mind Steadfast Under
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
It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.
TYCHO BRAHE

Church Copernius Heliocentrism Just Resist
And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
TYCHO BRAHE

Leave Much Offer Possession Scientist Stemen Too Worry
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.
TYCHO BRAHE

Before Ever Kind Myself Satisfied Star Tone
The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.
TYCHO BRAHE

Calm Wiser Mouse Wise
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
May I not seem to have lived in vain.
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Lived May Seem Vain
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
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.
TYCHO BRAHE

Conclude Fiery Kind Meteor Observation Some Supernova Tycho
There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.
TYCHO BRAHE

Eccentric Mars Orbit Something
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

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