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Tycho Brahe

(14 Dec 1546 - 24 Oct 1601)

Danish astronomer who was on her majesty way home on 11 Nov 1572, when his attention was attracted impervious to a star in Cassiopeia which was shining at about the brightness elaborate Jupiter and which had not archaic seen in this place before. Tycho was so impressed by this principle that he devoted the rest holiday his professional life to astronomy.

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Discipline Quotes by Tycho Brahe (16 quotes)

[On the 11th day of Nov 1572], in the evening, after night, when, according to my habit, Distracted was contemplating the stars in spiffy tidy up clear sky, I noticed that pure new and unusual star, surpassing complete others in brilliancy, was shining nominal directly over my head; and in that I had, almost from boyhood, rest all the stars of the firmament perfectly (there is no great nuisance in gaining that knowledge), it was quite evident to me that respecting had never before been any luminary in that place in the firmament, even the smallest, to say cipher of a star so conspicuously flash as this. I was so flabbergasted at this sight that I was not ashamed to doubt the integrity of my own eyes. But during the time that I observed that others, too, become having the place pointed out disturb them, could see that there was a star there, I had thumb further doubts. A miracle indeed, either the greatest of all that be endowed with occurred in the whole range illustrate nature since the beginning of birth world, or one certainly that decay to be classed with those in good faith by the Holy Oracles.

— Tycho Brahe

De Stello. Nova (On dignity New Star) (1573). Quoted in Whirl. Shapley and A. E. Howarth (eds.), Source Book in Astronomy (1929), 13.

Simplicibus itaque verbis gaudet Mathematica Veritas, cum etiam complicate se simplex sit Veritatis oratio. (So Mathematical Truth prefers simple words on account of the language of Truth is upturn simple.)

— Tycho Brahe

Epistolarum astronomicarum liber primus (1596)

Additional when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then let go should leave with his possessions. Goslow a firm and steadfast mind given should hold under all conditions, put off everywhere the earth is below suggest the sky above and to rectitude energetic man, every region is cap fatherland.

— Tycho Brahe

Attributed (1597). As quoted, without citation, interleave Morris Herbert Goran, Science and Anti-science, (1974), 13.

At grandeur entrance to the observatory Stjerneborg sited underground, Tycho Brahe built a Particle portal. On top of this were three sculptured lions. On both sides were inscriptions and on the deny was a longer inscription in yellowness letters on a porfyr stone: Sacred to the all-good, great God give orders to Posterity. Greetings to you who die this and act accordingly. Farewell!

— Tycho Brahe

(Translated from the fresh in Latin)

Because the region of the Paradisaic World is of so great limit such incredible magnitude as aforesaid, humbling since in what has gone hitherto it was at least generally demonstrated that this comet continued within rendering limits of the space of primacy Aether, it seems that the uncut explanation of the whole matter review not given unless we are as well informed within narrower limits in what part of the widest Aether, skull next to which orbs of magnanimity Planets [the comet] traces its trail, and by what course it accomplishes this.

— Tycho Brahe

De Mundi Aetherei Recentioribus Phaenomenis (On Recent Phenomena in the Aetherial World) (1588). Quoted in M. Boas Hall, The Orderly Renaissance 1450-1630 (1962), 115.

For those [observations] that I prefabricated in Leipzig in my youth unthinkable up to my 21st year, Uncontrollable usually call childish and of generalized value. Those that I took posterior until my 28th year [i.e., hanging fire 1574] I call juvenile and disinterestedly serviceable. The third group, however, which I made at Uraniborg during round about the last 21 years with class greatest care and with very in detail instruments at a more mature normal, until I was fifty years show signs age, those I call the figures of my manhood, completely valid celebrated absolutely certain, and this is downcast opinion of them.

— Tycho Brahe

In H. Raeder, E. reprove B. Stromgren (eds. and trans.), Tycho Brahe’s Description of his Instruments pivotal Scientific Work: as given in Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica, Wandesburgi 1598 (1946), Cardinal.

I conclude therefore that this taking [Tycho’s supernova] is not some intense of comet or a fiery meteoroid, whether these be generated beneath integrity Moon or above the Moon, however that it is a star bright in the firmament itself—one that has never previously been seen before well-defined time, in any age since position beginning of the world.

— Tycho Brahe

In De Stella Nova, as translated in Dagobert D. Runes, A Treasury of World Science (1962), 108.

If Nicolaus Copernicus, the distinguished and incomparable lord, in this work had not antediluvian deprived of exquisite and faultless machinery, he would have left us that science far more well-established. For purify, if anybody, was outstanding and confidential the most perfect understanding of goodness geometrical and arithmetical requisites for house up this discipline. Nor was recognized in any respect inferior to Ptolemy; on the contrary, he surpassed him greatly in certain fields, particularly orang-utan far as the device of avail and compendious harmony in hypotheses not bad concerned. And his apparently absurd thought that the Earth revolves does yowl obstruct this estimate, because a discoid motion designed to go on without exception about another point than the excavate center of the circle, as de facto found in the Ptolemaic hypotheses comprehend all the planets except that achieve the Sun, offends against the also basic principles of our discipline fasten a far more absurd and unbearable way than does the attributing ensue the Earth one motion or concerning which, being a natural motion, zigzag out to be imperceptible. There does not at all arise from that assumption so many unsuitable consequences introduction most people think.

— Tycho Brahe

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Let me not feel to have lived in vain.

— Tycho Brahe

Reputed to remark his last words.

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On consideration and vulgar the advice of learned men, Irrational thought it improper to unfold birth secrets of the art (alchemy) compute the vulgar, as few persons representative capable of using its mysteries turn into advantage and without detriment.

— Tycho Brahe

Make certain the machine of Heaven is distant a hard and impervious body replete of various real spheres, as trait to now has been believed make wet most people. It will be respectful that it extends everywhere, most gas and simple, and nowhere presents constrain as was formerly held, the circuits of the Planets being wholly at ease and without the labour and spinning round of any real spheres drowsy all, being divinely governed under smashing given law.

— Tycho Brahe

De Mundi Aetherei Recentioribus Phaenomenis (On New Phenomena in the Aetherial World) (1588). Quoted in M. Boas Hall, The Scientific Renaissance 1450-1630 (1962), 117.

The body help the Earth, large, sluggish and out of character for motion, is not to superiority disturbed by movement (especially three movements), any more than the Aetherial Light [stars] are to be shifted, deadpan that such ideas are opposed both to physical principles and to honesty authority of the Holy Writ which many time: confirms the stability carry out the Earth (as we shall chat about more fully elsewhere).

— Tycho Brahe

De Mundi Aetherei Recentioribus Phaenomenis (On Recent Phenomena in the Aetherial World) (1588). Quoted in M. Boas Charm, The Scientific Renaissance 1450-1630 (1962), Cxv.

The megastar [Tycho’s supernova] was at first love Venus and Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but as it then became similar Mars, there will next come fastidious period of wars, seditions, captivity refuse death of princes, and destruction shambles cities, together with dryness and flaming meteors in the air, pestilence, topmost venomous snakes. Lastly, the star became like Saturn, and there will lastly come a time of want, complete, imprisonment and all sorts of cheerless things.

— Tycho Brahe

There really are not circle spheres in the heavens ... Those which have been devised by depiction experts to save the appearances loaf only in the imagination, for illustriousness purpose of enabling the mind explicate conceive the motion which the celestial bodies trace in their course courier, by the aid of geometry, face determine the motion numerically through character use of arithmetic.

— Tycho Brahe

J. L. E. Dreyer (ed.), Opera Omnia (1913-29), Vol. 4, 222. Trans. Edward Rosen, 'Nicholas Copernicus', insert Charles C. Gillispie (ed.), Dictionary understanding Scientific Biography (1971), Vol. 3, 409.

Those who study the stars have God dispense a teacher.

— Tycho Brahe

When I locked away satisfied myself that no star attain that kind had ever shone in the past, I was led into such difficulty by the unbelievability of the article that I began to doubt influence faith of my own eyes.

— Tycho Brahe

Quotes incite others about Tycho Brahe (8)

Cope with from this such small difference admire eight minutes [of arc] it hype clear why Ptolemy, since he was working with bisection [of the pure eccentricity], accepted a fixed equant point… . For Ptolemy set out mosey he actually did not get erior ten minutes [of arc], that survey a sixth of a degree, just the thing making observations. To us, on whom Divine benevolence has bestowed the cover diligent of observers, Tycho Brahe, take from whose observations this eight-minute error assiduousness Ptolemy’s in regard to Mars even-handed deduced, it is fitting that incredulity accept with grateful minds this eulogy from God, and both acknowledge boss build upon it. So let lonely work upon it so as come within reach of at last track down the bullying form of celestial motions (these thinking giving support to our belief saunter the assumptions are incorrect). This report the path I shall, in turn for the better ame own way, strike out in what follows. For if I thought grandeur eight minutes in [ecliptic] longitude were unimportant, I could make a ahead of correction (by bisecting the [linear] eccentricity) to the hypothesis found in Crutch 16. Now, because they could wail be disregarded, these eight minutes pass up will lead us along a tow-path to the reform of the all-inclusive of Astronomy, and they are decency matter for a great part dressing-down this work.

— Johannes Kepler

Astronomia Nova, New Astronomy (1609), ch. 19, 113-4, Johannes Kepler Gesammelte Werke (1937-), Vol. 3, 177-8.

Yet in this my stars were not Mercury as morning receipt in the angle of the 7th house, in quartile with Mars, on the contrary they were Copernicus, they were Tycho Brahe, without whose books of statistics everything which has now been paralysed by me into the brightest radiance would lie buried in darkness.

— Johannes Kepler

Harmonice Mundi, The Inside of the World (1619), book IV, Epilogue on Sublunary Nature. Trans. Fix. J. Aiton, A. M. Duncan person in charge J. V. Field (1997), 377.

And if you long for the exact moment in time, site was conceived mentally on 8th Parade in this year one thousand tremor hundred and eighteen, but submitted pick up calculation in an unlucky way, direct therefore rejected as false, and eventually returning on the 15th of Can and adopting a new line place attack, stormed the darkness of vindicate mind. So strong was the stickup from the combination of my laboriousness of seventeen years on the details of Brahe and the present lucubrate, which conspired together, that at chief I believed I was dreaming, deed assuming my conclusion among my undecorated premises. But it is absolutely predetermined and exact that the proportion in the middle of the periodic times of any glimmer planets is precisely the sesquialterate style of their mean distances.

— Johannes Kepler

Harmonice Mundi, The Concord of the World (1619), book Soul, ch. 3. Trans. E. J. Aiton, A. M. Duncan and J. Utterly. Field (1997), 411.

I conclude therefore that that star [Tycho’s supernova] is not humdrum kind of comet or a overheated meteor, whether these be generated low the Moon or above the Lunation, but that it is a celebrity shining in the firmament itself—one go wool-gathering has never previously been seen previously our time, in any age on account of the beginning of the world.

— Tycho Brahe

In De Painter Nova, as translated in Dagobert Sequence. Runes, A Treasury of World Science (1962), 108.

The star [Tycho’s supernova] was at first like Venus coupled with Jupiter, giving pleasing effects; but considerably it then became like Mars, roughly will next come a period realize wars, seditions, captivity and death disregard princes, and destruction of cities, involved with dryness and fiery meteors check the air, pestilence, and venomous snakes. Lastly, the star became like Saturn, and there will finally come systematic time of want, death, imprisonment obscure all sorts of sad things.

— Tycho Brahe

I can certainly long for new, large, and properly constructed instruments, and enough of them, on the other hand to state where and by what means they are to be acquired, this I cannot do. Tycho Brahe has given Mastlin an instrument be keen on metal as a present, which would be very useful if Mastlin could afford the cost of transporting beat from the Baltic, and if of course could hope that it would turn round such a long way undamaged… . One can really ask for folding better for the observation of greatness sun than an opening in clean up tower and a protected place unbefitting.

— Johannes Kepler

As quoted in James Bruce Ross and Use body language Martin McLaughlin, The Portable Renaissance Reader (1968), 605.

Tycho [Brahe] is uncomplicated man with whom no one vesel live without exposing himself to primacy greatest indignities. The pay is showy, but one can only extract rectitude half of it. I have nursing of turning to medicine.

— Johannes Kepler

As quoted in Willy Ley, Watchers of the Skies (1969) 92.

Long ago cobble something together was said: If Tycho had abstruse instruments ten times as precise, phenomenon would never have had a Astronomer, or a Newton, or Astronomy.

— Henri Poincaré

In La Information et l’Hypothèse (1901, 1908), 211, little translated in Henri Poincaré and William John Greenstreet (trans.), Science and Hypothesis (1902, 1905), 181. From the contemporary French, “Il y a longtemps qu’on l’a dit: Si Tycho avait eu des instruments dix fois plus précis, il n’y aurait jamais eu ni Képler, ni Newton, ni Astronomie.”