Man, Tycho was quite the SlytherClaw (yes, you can't escape my sorting ways even here!). At least in youth. Then he goes all stubborn-and-arrogant Gryffindor on everyone.
"In fact, if today you open any encyclopedia to the section on solar eclipses, you will find a diagram showing Eath at the center of the solar system." (pg 35)
Er, really?
References to blind watchers: pg. 34, 36, 45 (but how could he resist this one considering Kepler's vision problems?), 66 ("myopic"), 71.
References to smashing celestial spheres: possibly more than to 'blind watchers' but I realized this too late to start counting. At least half a dozen. However, IT'S AN ELLIPSE! takes the cake XD
And I totally agree with Susan- the book is funny! I giggled all through the story of Tycho's daughter getting married, but it's a whole big paragraph so I'm not typing it. It's on pg. 41.
Also, we've discussed counting the value of human life in Econ classes :P It's a slightly different approach than asking a hitman, but that certainly works as well. (For the record, it involved medical care and compounds of future payments).
I'm not sure I enjoyed learning all that about Kepler, but I can't say it wasn't interesting. Also, he's a total Ravenclaw.
"The third problem with the model is that it is complete, total, and absolute nonsense." (pg. 54)
lol.
"our inevitable chronicler describes his blushing birde as 'simple of mind, and fat of body, with a stupid, sulking, lonely, melancholy complexion.'" (pg. 55)
I shouldn't laugh but LOL.
"Knowing that his place in history was secure, he composed this epitaph:
I measured the skies, now the shadows I measure
Skyborn was the mind, Earthbound the body rests." (pg. 69)
Nothing funny about that quote (it's kind of pretty), but totally made me think of Snape :D "Would you like me to do it now or would you like a moment to compose an epitaph?"
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