Note Z — AUBREY'S 'BRIEF LIVES'
Reading edition
On May 17, 1673, Aubrey had written to Anthony Wood (MS. Wood F. 39, fol. 208):—
'The learned (yet poore) Mr. Nicholas Mercator has a most elaborate piece, "Astronomiae compendium sphaerice et theorice, et hypotheses Ptolemaei, Tychonis, Copernici, Kepleri, Bullialdi, et Mercatoris."
It will be in 4to, two fingers thick; pret. 10s. Cambridge has subscribed for 50; London, as many more. If he could gett, at Oxon, 50 subscriptions more the printer would print it.... There are 70 schemes.'