THE MARTYRS OF SCIENCE, OR THE LIVES OF GALILEO TYCHO BRAHE, AND KEPLER. BY SIR DAVID BREWSTER, K.H. D.C.L., PRINCIPAL OF THE UNITED COLLEGE OF ST. SALVATOR AND ST. LEONARD, ST. ANDREWS; ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE; AND MEMBER OF THE ACADEMIES OF ST. PETERSBURG, STOCKHOLM, SECOND EDITION. LONDON: JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET. MDCCCXLVI. KHLA ENOIS Bayerische EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY T. CONSTABLE, PRINTER TO HER MAJESTY. TO THE RIGHT HON. FRANCIS LORD GRAY, F.R.S., F.R.S.E. MY LORD, In submitting this volume to the public under your Lordship's auspices, I avail myself of the opportunity thus afforded me of expressing the deep sense which I entertain of the friendship and kindness with which your Lordship has so long honoured me. Although in these days, when Science constitutes the power and wealth of nations, and encircles the domestic hearth with its most substantial comforts, there is no risk of its votaries being either persecuted or neglected, yet the countenance of those to whom Providence has given rank and station will ever be one of the most powerful incitements to scientific enterprise, as well as one of its most legitimate : |
