Tycho Brahe as a literary figure.

Scandinavian Studies | March 22, 1998| | Copyright

In John Donne's An Anatomy of the World (1611), a particularly melancholy passage reflects the cultural concern and even anguish over the implications of the "new astronomy" during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

... And new Philosophy calls all in doubt,

The Element of fire is quite put out;

The Sun is lost, and th'earth, and no mans wit

Can well direct him where to looke for it.

And freely men confesse, that this world's spent,

When in the Planets, and the Firmament

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