Tycho And Kepler
“Kepler’s mood cannot have been other than one of excitement and exhilaration, with most qualms about the impending meeting overridden by anticipation that Tycho Brahe, better than any other man alive, would be able to understand and value his ideas. The intellectual relationship and the access, at last, to Tycho’s observational data that Kepler looked forward to, and that Tycho had promised in his letters, must surely have made the future appear as rich, fertile, and limitless as the plains and skies that opened to view as the road climbed.
Tycho’s arrangement for Kepler to ride from Prague in the carriage with his eldest son had been flattering and consistent with the tone of his most recent correspondence, and Kepler’s welcome at Benatky was no disappointment. The venerable astronomer granted him a cordial initial interview. Tycho Brahe’s mystique was as powerful as any monarch’s, and to Kepler he probably seemed like a character from legend who had turned out to be real.
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