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INDEX.
399
Conjunctions of planets, 18, 52, 194, 195.

Copenhagen University, 13, 94, 110; T.'s house at, 200, 239.

Copernicus, life, 6; commentariolus, 83; instrument, 103, 125; observations, 123; solar system, 6, 172, 180, 208; T.'s opinion of this, 74: solar theory, 132, 333, 337; lunar theory, 338.

Corraducius, German Vice-Chancellor, 223, 266, 269, 271, 279, 298.

Correspondence, 131; with Landgrave and Rothmann, 134, 135, 208, 209, 228; with Magini, 212, 271.

Cosmopolitan character of astronomy, 115, 261.

Courland, Prince of, visits T., 217.

Craig, John, distance of comets, 208, 305, 369.

Crol, T.'s instrument-maker, 127, 211.

Cross-staff, 19, 357, 381.

Curtius, Albert, edits T.'s observations, 371, 372.

Curtius, J., German Vice-Chancellor, 223, 262, 329; his house at Prague inhabited by T., 278, 299, 365.

Customs at Elsinore, grant from, 109, 112.

Cyprianus. See Leovitius.

Dancey, French envoy, 42, 73, 85, 93, 131.

Danti, obliquity of ecliptic, 355.

Dee on new star, 63.

Diameter of sun, moon, planets, 191; of stars, 191; of moon, 344.

Diary, meteorological, at Hveen, 122.

Digges on new star, 58, 59; on transversal divisions, 330.

Dimensions of universe, 191.

Directions, astrological term, 148, 194.

Disciples. See Assistants.

Dresden, T.'s visit to, in 1598, 271.

Duel of T. and Parsbjerg, 26.

Eclipse of sun, 1560, 13; 1567, 27; 1598, 258, 259, 280, 341; lunar, 21, 26, 53, 55, 272; observations of eclipses used for lunar theory, 337; total eclipses denied by T., 344.

Ekdahl on ruins at Hveen, 378.

Elegy to Urania, 55; to Denmark, 254.

Elias Olsen, assistant to T., life, 122; expedition to Frauenburg, 123; calendar for 1586, 125.

Elixir of T., 130, 283.

Endowments of T., 108–113.

Ephemerides of Carellus, 18; Everhard, 269; Regiomontanus, 5; Stadius, 14, 17.

Eriksen, assistant to T., 301, 367.

Estate of T., 35, 223; promised in Bohemia, 279.

Fabricus, David, visits T., 260, 288.

Fabricius, Paul, on new star, 60, 61.

Farms, eleven, granted to T., 109, 235, 257.

Ferdinand I.'s villa inhabited by T., 298, 303.

Ferdinand II., Emperor, 291, 367, 370.

Fincke, mathematician, mission to Hveen, 240.

Fishponds at Hveen, 114, 257.

Flemlöse, assistant to T., 117; meteorology by, 119; sent to Cassel, 135.

Fool, T.'s, 128.

Forts, ancient, at Hveen, 91.

Fracastoro on direction of comets' tails, 6, 166; on obliquity of ecliptic, 355.

Frandsen, Hans, friend of T., 14, 44, 115.

Frangipani on new star, 64.

Frauenburg, expedition to, 123.
Frederick II , interested in T., 28; desires him to lecture, 73; gives him Hveen, 84; other grants, 108; whether he visited T., 139; kindness to T., 141; death, 156;