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Tycho Brahe

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Studying the Heavens Was a Part of Natural Philosophy

Philip Melanchton was Martin Luther's closest associate general of information at Wittenberg. Study of astronomy and astrology could be considered to be part of natural philosophy, he says. For Melanchton, one of the reasons why it was important to study the heavens was that that demonstrated that God had created an orderly cosmos.

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