Colllaboration from Anna Marie Roos The emblem reference to astronomers in general can be found at "Whitney's Choice of Emblemes 157" although I know I have seen that same emblem in reference to Ptolemy. The University of Glasgow has the Stirling Maxwell Collection of emblems, and I wonder if a librarian up there could help more specifically with this query. "In eos, qui, proximioribus spretis, remotiora sequuntur. [On those who, having disdained the things near at hand, pursue the more remote]. Th'astronomer, by night beheld the starres to shine: And what should chaunce an other yeare, began for to devine. But while too longe in skyes, the curious foole did dwell, As hee was marchinge through the shade, he slipt into a well. Then crying out for helpe, had frendes at hand, by chaunce; And nowe his perill being past; they thus at him doe glaunce. What foolishe art is this? (quoth they) thou hould'st so deare, That doth forshowe the perilles farre: but not the daungers neare." (Whitney 1586)