"When Indian astronomy works, translated by Jesuits in Cochin, started arriving in Europe, Tycho, as one of the most famous astronomers of his day, and the Mathematician of the Holy Roman Empire, would naturally have been chosen as the person to whom they were referred. Nilakantha's model was what later came to be called the “Tychonic” model, which Tycho was trying to check against observations. Why, after all, was Tycho so secretive about his papers, not even allowing his trusted assistant Kepler to see them? In any case, on Tycho's sudden death, Kepler obtained not just Tycho's observations, but also the rest of his papers which contained the underlying theory."
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