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WE have received the first three fasoiculi of this work, projected by M. Früs in 1876. Its purpose is to place in the hands of the astronomer, in a collective form, the letters of Tycho and his correspondence, preserved in the Royal Library at Copenhagen, and in the libraries of Vienna, Pulkowa, and Basle, and others which may be found elsewhere, and it is expected that the work will be complete in about sixteen parts. The earliest letter is one from Tycho to Joannes Aalborg, afterwards librarian at Copenhagen, dated January 14, 1568. There are letters to or from Steno Bille, or Bilde (an uncle of Tycho's, at whose house, it may be remembered, he detected the celebrated star of 1572 which is associated with his name), Thaddæus Hagecius, physician to the Emperor Rudolph II., Paulus Haintzel, Hieronymus Wolfius, and others, whose names occur in the well-known treatise, “De Nova Stella Anni 1572.” In a letter, No. 47, written in 1584, to Henricus Brucæus, Tycho enters into some discussion of the “Hypothesis Copernici,” in another to Hagecius (we follow the Latin names in use at the time) he refers at length to the parallax of the comet of 1577, observed by him with much care; from his observations of this body, as Pingré says, “on en concluait que le lieu des comètes était au-delà du ciel de la Lune.”
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TYCHO BRAHE'S CORRESPONDENCE 1 . Nature 18, 306 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/018306a0
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