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Title: The Scots in Germany : being a contribution towards the history of the Scots abroad
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Fischer, Ernst Ludwig, 1844-1906
Subjects: Scots
Publisher: Edinburgh, O. Schulze & Co.
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ot, who somethree years afterwards undertook a refutation of the Danedenouncing nee tarn scotice quam scoptice all thosethat dared to deny Aristotles teaching about the comets.The friendship between the two scholars, however, doesnot seem to have suffered much, at least not until theyear 1588; for in that year Tycho sends a mathematicalbook to Craig with the Latin dedication: To Doctor J.Craig of Edinburgh, the most renowned and most learnedProfessor of Medicine, the very distinguished Mathema-tician, etc., Tycho Brahe sends this gift. Three letters,which he wrote to the Danish scholar, are likewisecouched in the most friendly terms It is just possible thathe accompanied King James VI on his visit to the isle ofHveen and its celebrated observatory. In conjunction with Liddel and Craig must be mentionedJohn Johnston, called Polyhistor a man of less ambition, 1 Cp. E. H. B. Hill, Aberdeen Doctors, T893, p. 7. 2 Patrick Dun was afterwards Rector of Marischal College, Aberdeen(1621-1649).
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JOHN JOHNSTON STATESMAN AND SCHOLAR. 223 but vaster and more profound learning. He was theson of a certain Simon Johnston, who about the end ofthe XVIth Century, emigrated from Annandale to Samterin Poland, together with his two brothers Francis andGilbert. A birth-brief issued at Lanark in 1596, ofwhich copies exist at Vienna and Breslau, testifies thelegitimate birth of the brothers and their descent fromthe old race of the lairds of Craigieburn, and recommendingthem at the same time to the sovereigns of Holland andPoland. The mother of John Johnston was Anna Becker,a German lady, known by the beautiful designation ofMother of Alms. At the school of the MoravianBrethren in Ostrorog, and later at the High School ofBeuthen-on-the-Oder, and at Thorn, the future scholarreceived his education. In 1622 he went to Danzig, andthence by way of Denmark to Scotland, the home of hisfather. Here he continued his studies in the Collegeof St Leonards at St Andrews University, devotinghimself espec

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