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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Brahe Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/the-star-tychos-supernova-was-at-first-like-venus--683x1024.jpg)
![Tycho Brahe Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/for-those-observations-that-i-made-in-leipzig-in-m-683x1024.jpg)
![Tycho Brahe Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/the-body-of-the-earth-large-sluggish-and-inapt-for-683x1024.jpg)
![Tycho Brahe Quote - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/from-his-observations-he-concluded-that-it-tychos--683x1024.jpg)
![Tycho Brahe Quote - And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/and-when-statesman-or-others-worry-the-scientist-t-683x1024.jpg)
