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...fucking camel, man. But Anna is holding a ten-hour rehearsal today and isn’t allowing anyone to pee. I think that’s how Copernicus died.[Note: Actually, Copernicus’s death was unrelated to urine, while fellow astronomer Tycho Brahe died of a bladder infection after refusing to leave a banquet to relieve himself...
...orbits. Why? Because the circle is so pure and perfect that reason must reject anything less. "With your ellipse," Fabricius wrote Kepler, "you abolish the circularity and uniformity of the motions, which appears to me increasingly absurd the more profoundly I think about it." No matter that, using Tycho Brahe's most exhaustive astronomical observations in history, Kepler had empirically demonstrated that the planets orbit elliptically...
...just can't get enough of student-written plays, take a stroll to the Leverett Old Library Theater for End of Motions. Written by David Kornhaber '02, who is also a Crimson executive, the play concerns the relationship between the 16th century astronomers Johannes Kepler and Tycho Brahe. The two great minds spent a year together when the young Kepler escaped religious persecution at home to serve as an apprentice to the renowned and aging Brahe. Through a fierce intellectual competiton, they together redefined the entire course of modern science. And, oh yes, it's something of a comedy...
This play is an intellectual hybrid of philosophy of knowledge, science and history. Tycho Brahe has an omnipotent historical perspective. Johnannes Kepler's parents speak to each other through scientific texts for the entire play. Sounds like the story was written by a Harvard undergraduate, doesn't it? Guaranteed to be better than A World Without History, the first play by Kornhaber, who is also a Crimson editor, this production actually sounds hot. With what's purported to be a great ensemble cast this could be the best thing since Galileo or Picasso at the Lapin Agille...
...hours reading. The imaginary world she creates around herself is rich with the images and characters of her favorite stories--not "fantasy" tales, but ancient epics of sailors, travelers and explorers, from Odysseus and Marco Polo to Horatio Hornblower and that island-bound explorer of the sky, Tycho Brahe. The towering absence of Saskia's barely-remembered father, a Danish sailor named Thomas, fills her imagination with images of captains, the sea and Northern lands; the towering presence of her beautiful and world-wise best friend, Jane Singh, fills her dreams with images of willowy, "dusky maidens" welcoming Saskia...