nius by the
English Government--Trial of Kepler's Mother--Her final
Acquittal--And Death at the age of Seventy-five--The States of
Styria burn publicly Kepler's Calendar--He receives his Arrears of
Salary from Ferdinand--The Rudolphine Tables published in 1628--He
receives a Gold Chain from the Grand Duke of Tuscany--He is
Patronised by the Duke of Friedland--He removes to Sagan, in
Silesia--Is appointed Professor of Mathematics at Rostoch--Goes to
Ratisbon to receive his Arrears--His Death, Funeral, and
Epitaph--Monument Erected to his Memory in 1803--His Family--His
Posthumous Volume, entitled "The Dream, or Lunar Astronomy,"

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Number of Kepler's published Works--His numerous Manuscripts in 22
folio volumes--Purchased by Hevelius, and afterwards by Hansch--Who
publishes Kepler's Life and Correspondence at the expense of
Charles VI.--The History of the rest of his Manuscripts, which are
deposited in the Library of the Academy of Sciences at St
Petersburg--General Character of Kepler--His Candour in
acknowledging his Errors--His Moral and Religious Character--His
Astrological Writings and Opinions considered--His Character as an
Astronomer and a Philosopher--The Splendour of his
Discoveries--Account of his Method of Investigating Truth,

LIFE OF GALILEO.

CHAPTER I.

_Peculiar interest attached to his Life--His Birth--His early
studies--His passion for Mathematics--His work on the Hydrostatic
Balance--Appointed Lecturer on Mathematics at Pisa--His antipathy
to the Philosophy of Aristotle--His contentions with the
Aristotelians--Chosen professor of Mathematics in Padua--Adopts the
Copernican system, but still teaches the Ptolemaic doctrine--His
alarming illness--He observes the new Star in 1604--His magnetical
experiments._

The history of the life and labours of Galileo is pregnant with a
peculiar interest to the general reader, as well as to the philosopher.
His brilliant discoveries, the man of science regards as his peculiar
property; the means by which they were made, and the development of his
intellectual character, belong to the logician and to the philosopher;
but the triumphs and the reverses of his eventful life must be claimed
for our common nature, as a source of more than ordinary instruction.

The lengthened career which Providence a