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62 seems to have been made by Wolfgang Schuler at Wittenberg, who says that he saw it at six o'clock in the morning on the 6th November. On the 7th at 6 P.M. it was seen by Paul Hainzel, and the same evening by Bernhard Lindauer, minister at Winterthur in Switzerland. Maurolycus, the well-known astronomer at Messina, and David Chytræus at Rostock, saw it on the 8th. Many writers have quoted the words of Cornelius Gemma, stating that the star appeared first on the 9th November, and that it had not been visible on the previous evening in clear weather, but they have overlooked the fact that Gemma, in his book De Naturæ Divinis Characterismis, seu raris & admirandis Spectaculis, Libri ii. (Antwerp, 1575, 2 vols. 8vo), tells quite a different story, viz., that some people had already seen it before the end of October. He does not say when he first saw it himself, but he did not begin to observe its position till the 26th November, as he thought it idle talk when he first heard of a new star. Gemma's