Maitland, Scotch chancellor, 203, 204.
Major, Johannes, 131, 132.
Manuscripts, T.'s, 370, 373, 374, 390.
Marcellinus, star mentioned by, 65.
Marius, Simon, 302.
Mars, distance of, 178; theory of, 213, 303, 346; oppositions observed, 214, 258, 303.
Mashallah, on astrolabes, 316.
Mathematical studies, 23, 40.
Maurice of Hesse, 212, 285.
Maurolycus on new star, 62.
"Mechanica," 260.
Mecklenburg, Duke of, 133, 158, 246, 270; T.'s money invested in, 247, 308.
Medal struck in 1595, 228.
Medicine, connection with astronomy, 24, 118; T.'s practice of, 129, 232, 260.
Melanchthon, on Copernican system, 177.
Meragha observatory, 320, 321.
Meridian observations, 321, 349; meridian line, 358, 388.
Meteorological rules, 119; diary at Hveen, 122.
Minkawitz, Imperial councillor, 309, 311.
Moestlin. See Maestlin.
Monavius, Jesuit, 120, 182, 268.
Money invested by T., 247, 308.
Moon, observations of, 337; tables of, 337. See Lunar theory.
Moryson, Fynes, traveller, 71, 89, 280.
Mühlstein, 286.
Müller, Johannes, assistant to T., 259, 268, 287, 288, 300.
Muffet, physician, 137.
Mule, assistant to T., 240, 283.
Munk, Admiral, 198, 215.
Munosius, on new star, 60, 61, 83.
Mysterium Cosmographicum, 289.
Nasir al-din Tusi, 320.
Naturalisation of T. in Bohemia, 307.
Neisse, great globe brought to, 366.
New stars alleged to have appeared in 945 and 1264, 65.
star, 1572; Tycho's first observations, 38; measures, 39; decline of light, 41; colour, 42; book by T. on, 44; nature of, 48, 63, 193; effect of, 49; other observations, 57; parallax, 60; when first seen, 61, 68, 193; whether it will appear again, 66; larger work on, 188.
star, rumour of one in 1578, 143.
Newton quotes Gemma's statement about new star, 62.
Nobility, Danish, 10.
Nodes, lunar, motion of, 343.
Nolthius on new star, 60.
Nonius, 320, 329.
Nordfjord estate, 110, 111, 231, 267.
Nose, T.'s, disfigured, 26, 71, 274.
Novara, teacher of Copernicus, 7; geographical latitudes, 213.
Nürnberg observatory, 4.
Nunez. See Nonius.
Obliquity of ecliptic, 123, 355.
Observations by T., earliest, 19, 27, 32, 35; of new star, 39, 41; in 1574 73,; at Hveen, 86, 94, 227; at Wandsbeck, 258; in Bohemia, 303.
Observatories, T.'s, 103, 200, 282, 286, 333.
Ohr, printer, 260.
Orange, Maurice of, 266, 269.
Oration on astrology, 74; funeral, 311.
Oxe, Peter, High Treasurer, 43; Inger, T.'s foster-mother, 43, 138, 247.
Papius, friend of Kepler, 292. Parallax of new star, 60; of comets, 131, 165; of planets, 189, 303; of sun, 335; of moon, 344.
Paris University, 15.
Parsbjerg, his duel with T., 26.
Pedersen, steward at Hveen, 259.
