Behold, directly overhead, a certain strange star was suddenly seen . . . Amazed, and as if astonished and stupified, I stood still
TYCHO BRAHEBehold, directly overhead, a certain strange star was suddenly seen . . . Amazed, and as if astonished and stupified, I stood still
TYCHO BRAHELastly, the star became like Saturn, and there will finally come a time of want, death, imprisonment and all sorts of sad things.
TYCHO BRAHEMay I not seem to have lived in vain.
TYCHO BRAHEBecause 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.
TYCHO BRAHEThe mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.
TYCHO BRAHEWhen, 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 BRAHEThere is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.
TYCHO BRAHESo 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).
TYCHO BRAHEIt 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.
TYCHO BRAHEAnd when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
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.
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.
TYCHO BRAHEThere had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
TYCHO BRAHEit seems that the complete explanation of the whole matter is not given unless we are also informed within narrower limits in what part of the widest Aether, and next to which orbs of the Planets [the comet] traces its path, and by what course it accomplishes this.
TYCHO BRAHENow 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.
TYCHO BRAHEAn astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
TYCHO BRAHE