The Life of Tycho Brahe

To the Illustrious Man
HENRI LOUIS HABERT DE MONTMOR,
Most upright Master
of Petitions.

PREFACE
OF PETRUS GASSENDUS
TO THE LIFE
OF TYCHO BRAHE,
Chief of Astronomers.

ILLUSTRIOUS MAN,

I approve here that I have done what you advised me to do, while I present the Life of that celebrated Tycho Brahe, written [by me]. For when, six years ago, my health having begun to return to me, as if by right of postliminy, the thought had come to me that I would depart for my homeland for the sake of changing the air,