De prodigiosa specie, naturaq[ue] cometae, qui nobis effulsit altior lunae sedibus, insolita prorsus figura, ac magnitudine, anno 1577 plus septimanis 10. apodeixis tum physica tum mathematica

...concocted through inflammation and stimulated by nature to a critical expulsion. Finally, the parts that are deeply desperate may at some point depart from the healthy and intact ones, or even be amputated so they are not troublesome in the future.

This mutation and vicissitude of things, which respond to the dignity of critical signs, are indeed preceded by the voices of men and gods, omens, monsters, and prodigies of a kind that are surely not celebrated as having been seen by anyone since Christ was born, nor even since the world was founded. For what is more divine or more to be wondered at than that new star referring to the supernova of 1572, known as Tycho's Supernova which suddenly shone upon us in the most grave storm of the entire Belgian region, at a point of extreme desperation, near the seat of Cassiopeia? Whoever attributes this so far to a natural cause and judges it under the common orbit of comets, truly shows themselves to be very poorly versed in the method of demonstration and the science τῶν ἀλλαξέων of changes/mutations, let alone in the whole genre of Mathematics and in geometric elements. But for the proof of this, the opinion conspiring into one of so many most learned men, who observed the same star with such great study from such diverse and most widely separated parts of the earth...

Critical signs.

Analogy of the new star, which appeared to us through the beginning of November 1572 until April 1574.

Many even dare to assert that they have annotated the cause in it; it would be a wonder if they did not.