"Wittich... died... January 1586 without a publication to his name and... without a manuscript in preparation. ...His death ...changed the context of authorial credit; those who profited from his instruction could publicly praise the man... without reference to his work on the system of the world. ...[H]is ghost ...Tycho referred to it explicitly ...stalked the ...corridors of Uraniborg. ...Two years after Wittich's death, Tycho published the famous system... and Ursus came forth with... a new... similar "system of nature." Tycho... placed his diagram... labeling it "New Sketch of a World System lately invented by the Author; In which the Old Ptolemaic Gracelessness and Superfluity as well as the New Copernican Physical Absurdity of the Earth's Motion are eliminated and everything corresponds most fittingly to the Celestial Appearances.""
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