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had a firm conviction that mundane events
could be predicted by astrology, and that
this belief was supported by his own pre-
dictions.
It has already been stated that Tycho
Brahe maintained that observation must pre-
cede theory. He did not accept the Coper-
nican theory that the earth moves, but for a
working hypothesis he used a modification
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