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TYCHO BRAHE.

carefully as a great treasure, but he would most certainly not have discovered the laws of planetary motion, and Tycho's exile thus turned out to be of vast advantage to science.[1]

  1. Delambre has made this remark in a somewhat exaggerated form, Hist. de l'Astr. moderne, ii. p. xiv.: "Si Tycho fut resté dans son île, jamais Kepler ne se fut rendu à ses invitations; nous n'aurions certainement pas la Théorie de Mars, et nous ignorerions peut-être encore le véritable système du Monde."