112; one of four protectors of the kingdom, 198; alleged quarrel with T., 216; High Treasurer, 230; believed to have been T.'s enemy, 232, 233; T. asks his help, 267, 283.
Vedel, tutor to T., 15, 17, 20, 23; collects ancient ballads, 91, 92; corresponds with T., 131, 279, 283; visits T., 138, 201; dismissed from office of historiographer, 252.
Venice, T. visits, 81; intended expedition to Egypt from, 263.
Venus, comet's tail pointing to, 167, 170; used for determining absolute longitude, 349.
Vernier, 329.
Viète, 361.
Vignettes in T.'s books, 128.
Vitello, mentions refraction, 336.
Wallenstein, patron of Kepler, 371.
Walter, Michael, declaration about Reymers, 275.
Walther, Bernhard, 4; on refraction, 80, 336; instruments, 316, 330; time determination, 323; observatious of sun, 333; of planets, 345; of stars, 348.
Wandsbeck, 253.
Werner on trepidation, 355.
Wilhelm IV., Landgrave of Hesse, on new star, 57, 65, 68, 321; his youth, 79; T. visits him, 86; recommends T. to king, 84; alters his instruments, 120; correspondence with T., 134, 209, 228; intends to visit T., 136; on comet of 1577, 171; reads book on comet, 181; death, 212.
Willoughby d'Eresby, Lord, 137.
Winstrup, Bishop, 236, 377.
Wittenberg University, 22, 72, 271; T. visits, 29, 83, 271, 340.
Wittich, stay at Hveen, 119; never returns, 120; tells T. about Hagecius, 132; at Cassel, 120, 134, 331, 332; his books sold, 268; prostaphæresis, 361.
Woldstedt, orbit of comet, 1577, 357.
Wolf, Hieronimus, at Augsburg, 33, 81.
Workshop at Hveen, 108.
Würtemberg, Duke of, 370.
Young, Peter, 100, 203.THE END.
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