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The two men wanted different things out of their collaboration. Kepler wanted to make use of brahe's meticulous and extensive record of celestial observations. He prevailed upon kepler to write a refutation of culus reimer, known in latin as ursus. Ursus was an imperial mathematician and a royal pan in brahe's backside. The fact that we do indeed call this the ticonic system shows that brahe has gone down as the winner in history's books.