hanc edidisse; quod non ignorasset profecto vetus ille Huenæ incola qui ad turbidas Freti Sundici tempestates & rapidissimos ventos rei causam referebat; quibus facile concussse fuerant ædes leviter materiatæ: cum præsertim de tuendis sartis tectis Astronomicæ domus parum omnino laborarent aulici viri, quibus clientelæ jure, post Tychonem, Regis beneficio obtigerat.
H.—CATALOGUE OF THE VOLUMES OF MANUSCRIPT OBSERVATIONS OF TYCHO BRAHE IN THE ROYAL LIBRARY, COPENHAGEN.
[Compiled by means of the list in Bugge's Observationes astronomicæ (1784), compared with the library catalogues and the volumes themselves, with the kind assistance of Dr. C. Bruun, chief librarian. The MSS. form part of the so-called Old Royal collections, Gamle Kongelige Samlinger, the numbers of which are added in brackets.]
I. Original Observations.
Observationes astronomicæ a solstitio Hiberno anni 1577 ad annum 1582; maxima ex parte autographum, 4to, 197 ff. [No. 1825, 4to.]
Observationes ab anno 1582 usque ad annum 1587; ex parte autogr. In folio, 500 ff. [No. 311, fol.]
Observationes astronomicæ ab anno 1587 ad 1590 usque ad Jan. 26. In folio, 344 ff. [No. 312, fol.]
Observationes astronomicæ ab anno 1590 usque ad a. 1595. In folio, 340 ff. [No. 313 fol.]
Observationes planetarum super annum 1595 institutæ. In folio, 173 ff. [No. 314 fol.]
Observationes cometæ anni 1590, nec non cometæ 1596 apparentis. [No. 315 fol.]
Observationes planetarum et fixarum anno 1596 et 1597 ad d. 15 Mart.; narratio de occasione interruptarum observationum et discessus mei; obs. continuatæ Wandesburgi a 20 Oct. 1597. Adjectus est in fine catalogue fixarum ad annum 1588 completum.[1] In folio, 151 ff [No. 316 fol.]
Liber observationum Tychonis Brane pro 1598 Wandesburgi, nec non observationes astronomicæ factæ Wittebergæ a solstitio hyberno præcedente annum 1599, et variæ aliæ in Arce Benatica factæ eodem anno. In folio, 167 ff. [No. 317 fol.]
Observationes astronomicæ annorum 1600 et 1601 in Arce Caesarea regni Bohemici Benatica & Pragæ habitæ per instrumenta Tychonis Brahe. Accedunt observationes, quas anno 1600 factas Keplerus e Stiria Tychoni misit. In folio, 171 ff. [No. 318 fol.]
Observationes [autographæ] cometarum a. 1577 et a. 1580 et observa-- ↑ The catalogue has columns for RA, Decl., Long., Lat., and Magn., but very little has been filled in.
