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to see this book published, for it appeared on the very day of his death in 

 1543; and he thus escaped the posthumous condemnation passed upon the 

 work, which was placed in the Index by the Court of Home in 1G16, not- 

 withstanding its having been dedicated to a pope. 



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Fig. 78. Portrait of Tycho Brahe, engraved by Gheyn, at the end of the Sixteenth Century. 

 In the Library of M. Ambroise Firmin-Didot, Paris. 



Copernicus confined himself to astronomy; his successor and imitator, 

 the celebrated Tycho Brahe (Fig. 78), who did not, perhaps, excel him, but who 

 was in some respects his equal iu his learned treatises on Astronomy, fell a 



