cho left Huen, the island was transferred to some of the Danish
nobility, and the following brief but melancholy description of it was
given by Wormius. "There is, in the island, a field where Uraniburg
was." The scientific antiquities of Huen, have been more recently
described by Mr Cox, in his travels through Denmark.

"We landed," says he, "on the south west part in a small bay, just
below the place where a stream, supplied by numerous pools and fish
ponds, falls into the sea. We ascended the shore, which is clothed with
short herbage, crossed the stream, and passed over a gently waving
surface, gradually sloping towards the sea, and walked a mile to a farm
house, standing in the middle of the island, inhabited by Mr Schaw, a
Swedish gentleman, to whom the greater part of the island belongs. He
lives here in summer, but in winter resides at Landscrona. This dwelling
is the same as existed in Tycho Brahe's time, and was the farm house
belonging to his estate. A guide, whom we obtained from Mr Schaw,
conducted us to the remains of Tycho's mansion, which are near the
house, and consist of little more than a mound of earth which enclosed
the garden, and two pits, the sites of his mansion and observatory."[44]

[44] Cox's Travels in Poland, &c., vol. v., p. 189, 190.

LIFE OF JOHN KEPLER.

CHAPTER I.

_Kepler's Birth in 1571--His Family--And early Education--The
Distresses and Poverty of his Family--He enters the Monastic School
of Maulbronn--And is admitted into the University of Tubingen,
where he distinguishes himself, and takes his Degrees--He is
appointed Professor of Astronomy and Greek in 1594--His first
speculations on the Orbits of the Planets--Account of their
Progress and Failure--His "Cosmographical Mystery" published--He
Marries a Widow in 1597--Religious troubles at Gratz--He retires
from thence to Hungary--Visits Tycho at Prague in 1600--Returns to
Gratz, which he again quits for Prague--He is taken Ill on the
road--Is appointed Tycho's Assistant in 1601--Succeeds Tycho as
Imperial Mathematician--His Work on the New Star of 1604--Singular
specimen of it._

It is a remarkable circumstance in the history of science, that
astronomy should have been cultivated at the same time by three such
distinguished men as Tycho, Kepler, and Galileo. While Tycho, in the
54th year of his age, was observing the heavens at Prague, Kepler