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, and diffused such stuff in print to the public.

- Tycho Brahe