Just as Tycho Brahe's system proved to be for some a good half-way station between the improbable Ptolemaic and the heretical Copernican system;[347] so the Cartesian philosophy helped others to reconcile their scientific knowledge with their reverence for the Scriptures, until Newton's work had more fully demonstrated the scientific truth. [Footnote 347: See Moxon: _Advice, A Tutor to Astronomy and Geography_ (1670): 269.] Its originator, Réné Descartes[348] (1596-1650) was in Holland when word of Galileo's condemnation reached him in 1633, as he was seeking in the bookshops of Amsterdam and Leyden for a copy of the _Dialogo_.[349] He at once became alarmed lest he too be accused of trying to establish the movement of the earth, a doctrine which he had understood was then publicly taught even in Rome, and which he had made the basis of his own philosophy. If this doctrine were condemned as false, then his philosophy must be also; and, true to his training by the Jesuits, rather than go against the Church he would not publish his books. He set aside his _Cosmos_, and delayed the publication of the _Méthode_ for some years in consequence, even starting to translate it into Latin as a safeguard.[350] His conception of the universe, the Copernican one modified to meet the requirements of a literally interpreted Bible, was not printed until 1644, when it appeared in his _Principes_.[351] [Footnote 348: Haldane's _Descartes_ (1905) is the most recent and authoritative account based upon Descartes's works as published in the Adams-Tannery edition (Paris, 1896. foll.). This edition supersedes that of Cousin. [Transcriber's Note: Missing footnote reference in original text has been added above in a logical place.]] [Footnote 349: Haldane: 153.] [Footnote 350: Ibid: 158.] [Footnote 351: Descartes: _Principes_, Pt. III, chap. 13.]