186 JEROME CAEDAN. 



but as he continued to think for himself, he at last gave 

 not less offence to the orthodoxy of the Lutherans than of 

 the Catholics, and lived a life much clouded by contro- 

 versy, in which he appears to have shown no lack of the 

 usual bitterness and pride. He was well versed in 

 Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, had an inquiring mind, and 

 a decided leaning to philosophy. He was a good mathe- 

 matician, and, in 1543, the literary spirit which induced 

 his offer to Cardan, caused him to edit, for the first time 

 in Nuremberg, the Astronomy of Copernicus, Petreius 

 printing it 1 . 



To the request of his new friends at Nuremberg, 

 Jerome replied by sending them an enlarged copy of the 

 tract on Judicial Astrology, which he had published im- 

 perfectly, and with too much curtailment, in Milan, at his 

 own expense. Having sent that to be published at 

 Nuremberg, he forwarded nothing else, for a short time, to 

 Osiander and Petreius, for it will be remembered that the 

 Scoti, of Venice, were his friends, and having profited by 

 his first work, they were quite ready to print for him 

 again. Having no friend in Venice competent to correct 

 for him the proofs of any abstruse work, and being greatly 



i Christoph. Saxi Onomasticon Literarium, Tom. iii. p. 165. Zedler's 

 Universal Lexicon aller Wissenschaften und Kiinste. Bd. 25. In 

 which last work, under the name of Andreas Osiander, the elder, fur- 

 ther details may be found. One of Osiander's works had a curious 

 bearing on the character and spirit of his time ; it was entitled, " How 

 far is a Christian justified in flying from the Plague?" 



