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THE two papers mentioned below were published by the Bohemian Society of Science on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of Tycho's death. The first one forms a continua tion of Prof. Studnicka's “Prager Tychoniana,” published about a year ago (NATURE, lxiii. p. 206), and gives the titles of about a dozen volumes from Tycho's library which now belong to the University library at Prague. Several of these volumes contain three or four books bound together, with a few leaves of MS. inserted, among which is a MS. of eight pages (reproduced in facsimile) containing the calculation of the horoscope of Andreas Schoner, who is stated to have been born at Nuremberg on June 21, 1530. This is of interest, not only as showing the various steps of the modus operandi of judicial astrology, but also because the date of the younger Schoner's birth has hitherto been unknown (Poggendorff only gives the year 1528). In another volume of mathematical books there is a MS. note to the effect that π = 88: √785, which value (=3·14O9) does not seem to occur elsewhere. On the title page of this memoir is a figure of a medal which Tycho caused to be struck in 1595, probably to commemorate the completion of his star catalogue.
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Tycho Brahe in Prague 1 . Nature 65, 181 (1901). https://doi.org/10.1038/065181a0
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