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An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services

Tycho Brahe

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
The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.
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Calm Wiser Mouse Wise
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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Authority Confirm Earth Elsewhere Idea Many Oppose Physical Time
May I not seem to have lived in vain.
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Lived May Seem Vain
Behold, directly overhead, a certain strange star was suddenly seen . . . Amazed, and as if astonished and stupified, I stood still
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Behold Certain Directly Overhead Seen Star Strange Suddenly War
Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.
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God Star Study Teacher
One that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.
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Age Before Begin never One Previously Seen Since World
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
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
Because the region of the Celestial World is of so great and such incredible magnitude as aforesaid, and since in what has gone before it was at least generally demonstrated that this comet continued within the limits of the space of the Aether.
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Celestrial Gone Great Incredible Magnitude Region World
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
And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
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Leave Much Offer Possession Scientist Stemen Too Worry
There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.
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Eccentric Mars Orbit Something
So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.
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Language Mathematical Prefer Simple Since Truth Word
There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
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Been Before never Place Sky Star
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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Conclude Fiery Kind Meteor Observation Some Supernova Tycho

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