It was not just the Church that resisted the heliocentrism of Copernicus.
TYCHO BRAHEThere had never before been any star in that place in the sky.
More Tycho Brahe Quotes
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So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.
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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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One that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.
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The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.
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An astronomer must be cosmopolitan, because ignorant statesmen cannot be expected to value their services
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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 . . . .
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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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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.
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May I not seem to have lived in vain.
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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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Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.
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And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.
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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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There is something eccentric in the orbit of Mars.
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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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