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The first impulse towards this work by which Saxo was saved, is found in a letter from the Bishop of Roskild, Lave Urne, dated May 1512, to Christian Pederson, Canon of Lund, whom he compliments as a lover of letters, antiquary, and patriot, and urges to edit and publish "tam divinum latinae eruditionis culmen et splendorem Saxonem nostrum". Nearly two years afterwards Christian Pederson sent Lave Urne a copy of the first edition, now all printed, with an account of its history.

There is a reference to Osiander in De Subtilitate, p. 523. Cardan gives a full account of his relations with Osiander and Petreius in Opera, tom. i. p. 67. November 1536. Ferrari was one of Cardan's most distinguished pupils. "Ludovicus Ferrarius Bononiensis qui Mathematicas et Mediolani et in patria sua professus est, et singularis in illis eruditionis." De Vita Propria, ch. xxxv. p. 111.

My father, as was often the case with him, protracted his reply, and then seemed rather to commune with himself than to answer Mr. Squills. "The kindest, the best of men," he murmured, "Abyssus Eruditionis.

My father, as was often the case with him, protracted his reply, and then seemed rather to commune with himself than to answer Mr. Squills. "The kindest, the best of men," he murmured, "Abyssus Eruditionis.