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erit clarum, si addentur insulse setate nostra sub Hispaniarum Lusitanieequft 

 Principibus repertse et prsesertim America ab inventore denominata navium 

 preefecto, quern, ob incompertam ejus adhuc magnitudinem, alterum orbem 

 terrarum putant." (Nicolai Copernici de Revolutionibus orbium coelestiura,, 

 Libri sex, 1543, p. 2 a.) 



C 158 ) p. 300. Compare my Examen crit. de 1'Hist. de la Geographic, T. 

 iii. p. 154158, and 225227. 



I 459 ) p. 302. Compare Kosmos, Bd. i. 6. 86 (Engl. trans. Vol. i. p. 73.) 

 ( 46 ) p. 303. " The telescopes which Galileo constructed himself, and others 

 which he used for observing Jupiter's satellites, the phases of Venus, and the 

 solar spots, magnified 4, 7, and 32 times in linear dimensions, never more." 

 (Arago^ in the Annuaire du Bureau des Longitudes pour 1'an 1842, p. 268). 

 < 461 ) p. 304. Westphal, in his Biography of Copernicus (1822, S. 33), 

 dedicated to the great astronomer of Konigsberg, Bessel, like Gassendi, calls 

 the Bishop of Ermland Lucas Watzelrodt von Allen. According to explana- 

 tions very recently obtained, ^nd for which I am indebted to the learned his- 

 torian of Prussia, Archiv-Director Voigt, the family of the mother of 

 Copernicus is called in original documents Weisselrodt, Weisselrot, Weise- 

 brodt, and most usually Waisselrode. His mother was undoubtedly of 

 German descent, and the family of Waisselrode, who were originally distinct 

 from that of von Allen, which had flourished at Thorn from the beginning of 

 the 15th century, probably took the name of von Allen in addition to their 

 own, through adoption or connection. Sniadecki and Czynski (Kopernik 

 et ses Travaux, 1847, p. 26) call the mother of the great Copernicus Barbara 

 Wasselrode, married, in 1464, at Thorn, to his father, whose family they 

 bring from Bohemia. The name of the astronomer, who Gassendi designates 

 as Tornseus Borussus, is written by Westphal and Czynski, Kopernik, and by 

 Krzyzianowski, Kopirnig. In a letter of the Bishop of Ermland, Martin 

 Cromer of Heilsberg, dated Nov. 21, 1580, it is said, "Cum Jo. (Nicolaus) 

 Copernicus vivens ornamento fuerit, atque etiam nunc post fata sit, non 

 solum huic ecclesiae, verum etiam toti Prussiae patrise suse, iniquum esse puto, 

 eum post obitum carere honore sepulchri sive monumenti." 



(**) p. 304. Thus Gassendi, in Nicolai Copernici Vita, appended to his 

 biography of Tycho (Tychonis Brahei Vita, 1655, Hagse-Comitum, p. 3-20: 

 *' eodem die ct horis non multis priusquam animam efflaret." It is only 

 Schubert, in his Astronomy, Th. i. S. 115, and Robert Small, in the very 

 instructive Account of the Astronomical Discoveries of Kepler, 1804, p. 92, 

 who state that Copernieos died "a few days after the appearance of hia 



