FOOTNOTES:
[181] See Life of Galileo, p. [16].
[182] The fiery trigon occurs about once in every 800 years, when Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars are in the three fiery signs, Aries, Leo, and Sagittarius.
[183] The copy of this work in the British Museum is Kepler's presentation copy to our James I. On the blank leaf, opposite the title-page, is the following inscription, apparently in the author's hand-writing:—"Regi philosophanti, philosophus serviens, Platoni Diogenes, Britannias tenenti, Pragæ stipem mendicans ab Alexandro, e dolio conductitio, hoc suum philosophema misit et commendavit."
[184] The tapster of the Sirens.
[185] A serpent in his sting.
[186] In one of his anonymous writings Kepler has anagrammatized his name, Joannes Keplerus, in a variety of other forms, probably selected from the luckiest of his shuffles:—"Kleopas Herennius, Helenor Kapuensis, Raspinus Enkeleo, Kanones Pueriles."