sus eram coelos, nunc terrae metior umbras:
Mens coelestis erat, corporis umbra jacet.

IN CHRISTO PIE OBIIT ANNO SALUTIS 1630, DIE 5 NOVEMBRIS, AETATIS SUAE
SEXAGESIMO.

This monument was not long preserved. It was destroyed during the wars
which desolated Germany; and no attempt was made till 1786 to mark with
honour the spot which contained such venerable remains. This attempt,
however, failed, and it was not till 1803 that this great duty was paid
to the memory of Kepler, by the Prince Bishop of Constance, who erected
a handsome monumental temple near the place of his interment, and in the
Botanical Garden of the city. The temple is surmounted by a sphere, and
in the centre is a bust of Kepler in Carrara marble.

Kepler left behind him a wife and seven children--two by his first wife,
Susanna and Louis; and three sons and two daughters by his second wife,
viz.--Sebald, Cordelia, Friedman, Hildebert, and Anna Maria. The eldest
of these, Susanna, was married a few months before her father's death to
Jacob Bartschius, his pupil, who was educated as a physician; and his
son Louis died in 1663, while practising medicine at Konigsberg. The
children by his second wife are said to have died young. They were left
in very narrow circumstances; and though 24,000 florins were due to
Kepler by the Emperor, yet only a part of this sum was received by
Susanna, in consequence of her refusing to give up Tycho's Observations
till the debt was paid. Kepler composed a little work entitled "The
Dream of John Kepler, or Lunar Astronomy," the object of which was to
describe the phenomena seen from the moon; but he died while he and
Bartschius were engaged in its publication, and Bartschius having
resumed the task, died also before its completion. Louis Kepler dreaded
to meddle with a work which had proved so fatal to his father and his
brother-in-law, but this superstitious feeling was overcome, and the
work was published at Frankfort in 1636.

CHAPTER IV.

_Number of Kepler's published Works--His numerous Manuscripts in 22
folio volumes--Purchased by Hevelius, and afterwards by Hansch--Who
publishes Kepler's Life and Correspondence at the expense of
Charles VI.--The History of the rest of his Manuscripts, which are
deposited in the Library of the Academy of Sciences at St
Petersburg--General Character of Kepler--His Candour in
acknowledging his Errors--His Moral and Religiou