“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. 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.” PeopleHas BeensRealHardBodyLawScienceGivenHeavenSimplePlanetsMachinesRoundsVariousObstaclesLabourSpheresFluidCircuitsImpervious Author:Tycho Brahe
“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. The third group, however, which I made at Uraniborg during approximately the last 21 years with the greatest care and with very accurate instruments at a more mature age, until I was fifty years of age, those I call the observations of my manhood, completely valid and absolutely certain, and this is my opinion of them.” YearsMadeCareAgeLastsScienceCertainValuesOpinionGroupsYouthThirdsInstrumentsObservationFiftyMatureAccurateManhoodDoubtfulJuvenileLeipzig Author:Tycho Brahe
“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 - one that has never previously been seen before our time, in any age since the beginning of the world.” WorldKindAgeScienceStarsMoonShiningObservationOur TimeFieryCometsFirmamentMeteorsSupernova Author:Tycho Brahe
“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. Lastly, the star became like Saturn, and there will finally come a time of want, death, imprisonment and all sorts of sad things.” WantGivingFirstsWarTogetherScienceNextStarsPleasureCitiesAirEffectsPeriodsDestructionObservationMarsSnakesFieryImprisonmentVenusCaptivityJupiterSad ThingsSaturnPestilenceMeteorsSupernovaVenomous Author:Tycho Brahe
“Those who study the stars have God for a teacher.” GodScienceUniverseStarsSpaceLordStudyTeacherSkyAstronomyCosmology Author:Tycho Brahe
“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, 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).” IdeasBodyLightEarthScienceThreeStarsPrinciplesMovementHolyAuthorityStabilityElsewhereDisturbedSluggish Author:Tycho Brahe
“And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. 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.” MenShouldMindEarthScienceWorryToo MuchSkyConditionsScientistPossessionFirmRegionsStatesmenEnergeticSteadfastFatherland Author:Tycho Brahe
“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.” KindEyeScienceUniverseStarsMy OwnDoubtMysterySatisfiedPerplexity Author:Tycho Brahe
