, rendered his name immortal by his encouragement of learning, by his studies,
, rendered his name immortal by his encouragement of learning, by his studies,
and by his observations, for many years, of the celestial
bodies. For this purpose he erected an observatory at
Cassel, and furnished it with good instruments, well adapted
to that design calling also to his assistance two eminent
artists, Christopher Rothmann and Juste Byrge. His observations, which are of a very curious nature, were published at Leyden, in 1618, by Willebrord Snell; and are
in part mentioned by Tycho Brahe, as well in his epistles
as in the 2d volume of his “Progymnasmata.
” This prince
died in