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.
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 . . . .
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).
It 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
![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)
![Tycho Brahe Quote - And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.](https://minimalistquotes.com/images/and-when-statesmen-or-others-worry-him-the-scienti.jpg)
![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 - 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 - 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 - 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.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/it-seems-that-the-complete-explanation-of-the-whol-683x1024.jpg)
