"To the end of his life remembered, with... euphoric nostalgia and... rage, the stimulating visit from in... 1580. Never before had he found such congenial intellectual companionship, nor... until the arrival of Johannes Kepler in 1600. To his Wratislavian guest Tycho opened all his secrets... so he wrote, intimating ruefully that he had learned his lesson and would never again display his inventions so freely. But by... October 1580... Wittich had resolved to go back home... [T]he next thing Tycho knew, Wittich was in the court of Wilhelm of Hesse, freely talking about all that was new in astronomy, whether his own or the great Dane's. Tycho remained obsessed by this outrage, and the volume of letters he published in 1596 is largely... designed to establish his... priorities... [and] depricate Wittich... referred to... obliquely as "a certain Wroclaw mathematician.""
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