DR. S. CROMPTON ON A PORTRAIT OF TYCHO BRAKE. 79 



" igne e • tunda " (sic) ; "Igne et unda" was, no doubt, in- 

 tended. In the left upper corner, in large and distinct 

 letters, is this inscription — '' Effigies TychonisBrahe,Otton. 

 Da. Anno 50 complete quo post diutinum in patria exilium 

 libertati desideratse divino provisu restitutus est." 



Dr. Crompton pointed out, by references to Gassendi^s 

 * Tychonis Brahe Vita,' 4to, Hagse Comit. 1656, that the 

 inscription referred to Brahe's departure from Denmark, 

 and that the " exilium in patria '' was an allusion to his 

 residence on his island of Huenna, in his Observatory, away 

 from the court for twenty years. The emblematic picture 

 evidently implies that nothing (not all the elements) could 

 destroy the monument which he had erected to his repu- 

 tation by his observations, and that they would be pro- 

 tected by Providence. 



Dr. Crompton exhibited two engraved portraits of 

 Tycho, the first of them engraved by Meurs, in which he 

 is surrounded by heraldic coats of arms, and with an in- 

 scription to the effect that the portrait represented him on 

 the completion of his 40th year in 1586. The second en- 

 graving was by Haas, of Copenhagen, and is without a 

 date. In both of these engravings Brahe is represented 

 with a cap on his head and wearing, suspended by a double 

 chain, the Danish Order of the Elephant and Castle, but 

 without the portrait of the king, and without the letters 

 on Dr. C.'s portrait. 



Dr. C. proceeded to show from Gassendi, page 71, that 

 King Frederick had given him the Order, and that subse- 

 quently his son. King Christian (Gassendi, page 116), had 

 given him a second badge, which he, himself, wore, that 

 the king had taken it off his own neck and put it round 

 Brahe's neck ; and he particularly mentions that this second 

 badge had a portrait of the king upon it, as it actually is 

 represented in Dr. Crompton's portrait. Gassendi men- 



