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peror Rudolph entrusting to him the prepa-
ration of new tables (called the Rudolphine
tables) founded on the new and accurate
observations. He had the most profound
respect for the knowledge, skill, determi-
nation, and perseverance of the man who
had reaped such a harvest of most accu-
rate data; and though Tycho hardly recog-
nised the transcendent genius of the man
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