Berry, Arthur,b. 1862 · London, J. Murray · leaf 180
was collected for it, and themain treatise does not appear to have been touched. 105. The book on the comet of 1577 is of specialinterest, as containing an account of Tychos system of theworld, which was a compromise between those of Ptolemyand of Coppernicus. Tycho was too good an astronomernot to… … Fig. 52.—Tychos system of the world. From his book on thecomet of 1577. the sluggish and heavy earth as contrary to physicalprinciples, and he objected to the great distance of the 138 A Short History of Astronomy [Cn v. stars which the Coppernican system required, because a vastempty space would…
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![An illustration from Nicolai Copernici Torinensis De reuolutionibus orbium coelestium, libri VI : Habes in hoc opere iam recens nato, & aedito, studiose lector, motus stellarum, tam fixarum, quàm erraticarum, cum ex ueteribus, tum etiam ex recentibus obseruationibus restitutos: & nouis insuper ac admirabilibus hypothesibus ornatos. Habes etiam tabulas expeditissimas, ex quibus eosdem ad quoduis tempus quàm facillime caculare poteris. Igitur eme, lege, fruere. [Line in Greek] (1543)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-nicolaicopernici00cope-149-83.webp)
