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