  In his 1606 De Stella Nova, Johannes Kepler attempted to answer Tycho Brahe's
argument that the Copernican heliocentric hypothesis required all the fixed
stars to dwarf the Sun, something Brahe found to be a great drawback of that
hypothesis. This paper includes a translation into English of Chapter 16 of De
Stella Nova, in which Kepler discusses this argument, along with brief outlines
of both Tycho's argument and Kepler's answer (which references snakes, mites,
men, and divine power, among other things).
