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Tycho resumes his Astronomical Observations--Is attacked with a Painful Disease--His Sufferings and Death in 1601--His Funeral--His Temper--His Turn for Satire and Raillery--His Piety--Account of his Astronomical Discoveries--His Love of Astrology and Alchymy--Observations on the Character of the Alchymists--Tycho's Elixir--His Fondness for the Marvellous--His Automata and Invisible Bells--Account of the Idiot, called Lep, whom he kept as a Prophet--History of Tycho's Instruments--His Great Brass Globe preserved at Copenhagen--Present state of the Island of Huen,

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LIFE OF JOHN KEPLER.