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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.

Tycho Brahe

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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Author Clear Devise Quite Say Solid Sphere
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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Effect First Given Jupiter Like Mars Pleasing Star Supernova Tycho Venus
And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
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Him Leave Much Other Possession Scientist Statement Worry
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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Body Full Hard Heaven Impervious Machine Real Sphere Various
One that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.
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Age Before Begin never One Previously Seen Since World
The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.
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Calm Wiser Mouse Wise
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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Celestrial Gone Great Incredible Magnitude Region World
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.
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Before Ever Kind Myself Satisfied Star Tone
There had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
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Been Before never Place Sky Star
May I not seem to have lived in vain.
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Lived May Seem Vain
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.
TYCHO BRAHE

Energetic Everywhere Fatherland Hold Man Mind Steadfast Under
And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
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Leave Much Offer Possession Scientist Stemen Too Worry
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.
TYCHO BRAHE

Aetherial Authority Body Disturbed Earth Especially Idea Large Light Motion Movement Oppose Physical Principle Shifted Sluggish Stability Star Three
So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.
TYCHO BRAHE

Language Mathematical Prefer Simple Since Truth Word
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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Become Come Finally Imprisonment Lastly Sad Saturn Sort Star Thing Time
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).
TYCHO BRAHE

Authority Confirm Earth Elsewhere Idea Many Oppose Physical Time

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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