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domino pendeat, ignoro.” Quoted by, Trechsel, Antitrin. II. 164, note
4.
ft983 Comp. Inst. I. ch. V. §§ 2 and 5, where he speaks highly of astronomy.
ft984 “Curiositas non modo supervacanea et ad nullam rem utilis, verum
etiam exitiosa.”
ft985 Inst. Bk. I. ch. XIV. § 4.
ft986 Copernicus finished his work De Orbium colestium Revolutionibus in
1530, and dedicated it to the pope; but it was not published till 1543,
by Osiander of Nürnberg, to whom he had given the manuscript, and
who announced the discovery in the preface as a mere hypothesis. He
received a copy on his death-bed at Frauenburg on the borders of
Prussia and Poland. He was probably a devout man, and is often
credited with the prayer graven on his tombstone: “I ask not the grace
accorded to Paul; not that given to Peter; give me only the favor which
thou didst show to the thief on the cross” (“non parem Pauli gratiam
requiro,” etc.); but this inscription is taken from a poem of Aeneas
Sylvius De Passione Domini, and was put upon the monument of
Copernicus at Thorn by Dr. Melchior Pyrnesius (1589). Copernicus is
there represented with folded hands before a crucifix. See Prowe’s
work on Coper-nicus, and Luthardt in the “Theol. Literaturblatt” for
April 22, 1892 (p. 188).
ft987 See above, p. 324. Beza thus reports this incident: “Not long after
Calvin returned [from Angoulême, in 1534] to Paris, as if called there
by the hand of God himself; for the impious Servetus was even then
disseminating his heretical poison against the sacred Trinity in that city.
He professed to desire nothing more earnestly than to have an
opportunity for entering into discussion with Calvin, who waited long
for Servetus, the time and place for an interview having been
appointed, with great danger to his own life, since he was at that time
under the necessity of being concealed on account of the incensed rage
of his adversaries. Calvin was disappointed in his expectations of
meeting Servetus, who wanted courage to endure even the sight of his
opponent.”
ft988 “If ever a poor fanatic thrust himself into the fire, it was Michael
Servetus.” Coleridge in his Table-Talk.
ft989 See the judgments below in § 139.