And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
TYCHO BRAHE
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).
More Tycho Brahe Quotes
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And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
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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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May I not seem to have lived in vain.
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There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
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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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Behold, directly overhead, a certain strange star was suddenly seen . . . Amazed, and as if astonished and stupified, I stood still
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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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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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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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Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.
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It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.
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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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An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
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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.
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it 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.
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There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.
TYCHO BRAHE