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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

And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
TYCHO BRAHE

Him Leave Much Other Possession Scientist Statement Worry
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.
TYCHO BRAHE

Author Clear Devise Quite Say Solid Sphere
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.
TYCHO BRAHE

Conclude Fiery Kind Meteor Observation Some Supernova Tycho
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

Become Come Finally Imprisonment Lastly Sad Saturn Sort Star Thing Time
The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.
TYCHO BRAHE

Calm Wiser Mouse Wise
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
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
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 . . . .
TYCHO BRAHE

According Clear Contemplating Habit New Notice Sky Star Stupified Unusual
There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.
TYCHO BRAHE

Eccentric Mars Orbit Something
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.
TYCHO BRAHE

Before Ever Kind Myself Satisfied Star Tone
And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
TYCHO BRAHE

Leave Much Offer Possession Scientist Stemen Too Worry
Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.
TYCHO BRAHE

God Star Study Teacher
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.
TYCHO BRAHE

Body Full Hard Heaven Impervious Machine Real Sphere Various
So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.
TYCHO BRAHE

Language Mathematical Prefer Simple Since Truth Word
An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
TYCHO BRAHE

Astronomer Cosmopolitian Expect Ignorant Must Service Value
It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.
TYCHO BRAHE

Church Copernius Heliocentrism Just Resist

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