July 2009
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“Being in control of his own wealth and having inherited a large fortune, he...”
– Johannes Kepler on Tycho Brahe, Notes on the Somnium
June 2009
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Johannes Kepler called Tycho “the prince of...
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“i used to think that
you had the answers
now i can’t hear them
i...”
– Free, Tycho Brahe
May 2009
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“Taken all in all, neither to your children, nor to your wife, nor to yourself...”
– Johannes Kepler, in an apology to Tycho Brahe
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“i sit alone and watch the skies
hope that you come out tonight
and broken...”
– Armistice, Tycho Brahe
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Kepler to Maestlin, 1599
Brahe may discourage me from Copernicus (or even from the five perfect solids) but rather I think about striking Tycho himself with a sword. I think thus about Tycho: he abounds in riches, which like most rich people he does not rightly use. Therefore great effort has to be given that we may wrest his riches away from him. We will have to go begging, of course, so that he may sincerely spread his...
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“Let all keep silence and hark to Tycho who has devoted thirty-five years to his...”
– an excerpt from Johannes Kepler’s diary
April 2009
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“His assistant, Johannes Kepler, praised him as a “phoenix” of...”
– source
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“One should be, not pretend to be.”
– Tycho Brahe (via jurassicgarcons)
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“Ne frustra vixisse videar!
(Let me not seem to have lived in vain!)”
– Tycho Brahe’s last words
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“Meanwhile, find out by a third or fourth hand whether Kepler is quietly...”
– Tycho Brahe, to Jan Jesensky
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brahe's cosmos
Near the sun in motion are the centeres of the revolutions of the five planets, while the earth is stationary. Around it, not only to the luminaries [sun and moon] revolve, but also the entire eigth sphere (as they call [the sphere of the stars]) gazes down upon earth, which is also in its middle. According to Copernicus, the extent of the starry sphere stretches almost to infinity, even by this...
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to johannes kepler
But I shall discuss these and other topics with you at greater length with pleasure and much intensity, and I shall hand you more of my writings if you visit me some day as you promise. (…) Yet I would not want hard luck to force you to come to me, but rather your own judgment as well as your love and affection for the studies which we share. Nevertheless, whatever comes to pass, you will find...
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on ursus, the plagiarist
The issue concerning his misappropriation of my hypotheses and publicising them as his own would not be so grave had he not with most outragous and criminal lies shamelessly attacked with his scurilous and misshapen pen in that disreputable book teeming with falsehoods and insults my dignity and reputation, nay, my country, ancestry, and most honorable house, and defamed them as much as he can,...
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“Even though I have not met you face to face, most learned sir, nevertheless I...”
– Tycho Brahe, to Johannes Kepler
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i believe in the geocentricism of the universe.