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PRICES of STOCK for the Year 1791.

N. B. The highest and lowest Prices of each STOCK in the Course of any Month are put down in that Month.

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BIOGRAPHICAL

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MEMOIRS cf TYCHO BRAHE.

[From the third Volume of CoxE'S TRAVELS into POLAND, RUSSIA, SWEDEN, and DENMARK.]

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Ycho Brahe, delcended from a noble and illuftrious Danish family, was born in 1546 at Knudftorp, a final lordfhip near Helfingborg in Scania. His father, Otto Brahe, having a large family, Tycho was educated under the care and at the expence of his uncle George Brahe, who, having no children, adopted him as his heir. Finding his nephew a boy of lively capacity, and though only feven years of age ftrongly inclined to ftudy, he had Tycho inftructed in the Latin tongue unknown to his father, who confidered literature as inglorious, and was defirous that all his fons fhould follow the profef fion of arms.

"In the twelfth year of his age, Tycho was removed to the academy of Copenhagen; and his mind, which had not yet taken any direction, was cafually incited to the study of aftronomy by an eclipfe of the fun, which happened on the 21ft of Auguft, 1560. He had for fome time examined the aftrological diaries or almanacks, which pretended to predict future events from the infpection of the fars; but when he obferved that the eclipfe happened at the precife time at which it was foretold, his admiration was loft in

aftonishment; and he confidered that fcience as divine, which could thus fo thoroughly understand the motions of the heavenly bodies as to foretel their places and relative pofitions. From that moment he devoted himfelf to aftronomy.

"In 1562 he was fent to Leipfic for the purpofe of ftudying civil law; but he gave to the law only thofe hours which his tutor's im portunity wrefted from him, devoting the greateft part of his time to his favourite fcience; and as his tutor continually remonftrated against thofe ftudies which took off his attention from the law, to which he was defined by his uncle, he conceived an unconquerable difguft for that profeffion, and more affiduoufly, though fecretly, continued his aftronomical purfaits. For this purpofe he laid out all the money which his uncle allowed him for pocket expences in the purchafe of aftronomical books; having obtain. ed a fmall celeftial globe, he took the opportunity, while his preseptor was in bed, of examining the heavenly bodies, and before a month had elapfed, he made himfelf acquainted with all the ftars which at that time appeared above the horizon. Infpired with the fame ardent zeal

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