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Title: The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler

Author: David Brewster

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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; FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON; VICE-PRESIDENT
OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH; CORRESPONDING MEMBER
OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE; AND MEMBER OF THE
ACADEMIES OF ST PETERSBURG, STOCKHOLM,
BERLIN, COPENHAGEN, GOTTINGEN,
PHILADELPHIA, &c. &c.

LONDON:
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET.
1841.

G. S. TULLIS, PRINTER, CUPAR.

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 rewards.
Next to the satisfaction of cultivating Science, and thus laying up the
only earthly treasure which we can carry along with us into a better
state, is that of having encouraged and assisted others in the same
beneficent labours. That your Lordship may long