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IN this volume, or rather in this fasciculus, we are given some of the most interesting if not the most important works of Tycho Brahe. The title-page of the volume with the editor's name appears to be reserved for the second fasciculus, but it is probably safe to conjecture that the new volume, like its predecessors, has been produced by Dr. Dreyer. The first of these works was printed at Tycho Brahe's press at Wandsbek in the duchy of Holstein-Gottorp, where he was the guest of Heinrich of Rantzau. Thither he had transported his observations and most of his instruments in consequence of a disagreement with King Christian IV. which had led him to leave Denmark. He was now seeking a new patron, and his eyes turned to the Emperor Rudolf II., to whom this work is dedicated. It is in effect an attempt—as it happened, a successful attempt—on the part of the author to commend himself and his work to the emperor, and it contains an illustrated account of the structure and use of each of his instruments, an autobiography with an account of his achievements and projects, and an appendix describing his observatory at Hveen. The remaining works are now printed for the first time. The most important of them is the Prolegomena, which occupies twenty-five pages and treats generally the importance of the sun and moon in the universe and the corrections which the author has introduced into their theory.
Tychonis Brahe Opera Omnia.
Tomi Quinti Fasciculus Prior: Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica (1598); In Solis et Lunae Motus Restitutos ac Sequens Diarium Prolegomena (1598); Specimen Diarii Anni 1599 (1598); Ephemerides Solis Annorum 1586-1592. Pp. 213. (Køenhavn: Gyldendalske Boghandel, 1921.)
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F., J. Tychonis Brahe Opera Omnia . Nature 108, 237 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108237a0
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