ABSTRACT
Historians of early modern astronomy and mechanics have traditionally focused on a small number of individuals considered to have contributed most to the evolution and convergence of these disciplines. Identification of a Philippist astronomer necessarily rests on biographical evidence as well as on the details of their natural philosophy. To dwell on the various ways in which Johannes Kepler articulated his sense of having uncovered an element of the Divine Plan through mathematical analysis of the planetary intervals is unnecessary, but it is worth mentioning two that are otherwise likely to be overlooked. Tycho Brahe's Philippism, although not quite overlooked by historians, has not yet been identified as central to his astronomical work to the same extent that recent accounts have made the notion of the divine archetypes the key to understanding Kepler's cosmology. It was, however, a Philippism inflected by Tycho's semi-Paracelsian understanding of the relationship between different parts of cosmos.
