Lastly, the star became like Saturn, and there will finally come a time of want, death, imprisonment and all sorts of sad things.
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 BRAHESo mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.
TYCHO BRAHEWith 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.
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 BRAHEThose who study the stars have God for a teacher.
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 BRAHEIt was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.
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 BRAHEFrom 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 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 BRAHEThere had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
TYCHO BRAHEThe 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.
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 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 BRAHEThe mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.
TYCHO BRAHE