Bartsch to Müller, 29 July/8 August 1629
Jacob Bartsch, “Bartsch to Müller, 29 July/8 August 1629,” Nova Kepleriana 4, August 8, 1629, 97, transcribed in Plain Old Text, https://sources.vjbe.net/stable/72ky2.
Nova Kepleriana 4 8 Aug, 1629, p. 97 Summary
Part of Die Keplerbriefe auf der Nationalbibliothek und auf der Sternwarte in Paris
Bartsch sends Kepler's *Sportula* and announces that he will pass through Leipzig on his way to Frankfurt and Strasbourg.
Source: Jacob Bartsch's letter to Philipp Müller written at Lauban on 29 July/8 August 1629, sending a copy of Kepler's Sportula and announcing his journey to Frankfurt and Strasbourg. The original is in the Bibliothèque de l'Observatoire, Paris (B, 1, 9; 89, 10. C. 3). Printed in extracts in Nova Kepleriana 4, ed. Walther von Dyck and Max Caspar, Abhandlungen der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Math.-naturw. Abteilung 31, no. 1 (Munich, 1927), 97.
English translation of the Latin extracts printed in Nova Kepleriana 4 (1927), made for Plain Old Text. Each paragraph translates the corresponding extract of the original; the omission marks (…) are the 1927 editors’. Italics follow the editors’ emphasis.
Two days ago . . I sent a copy of Kepler’s SportulaKepler's Sportula genethliacis missa (1629), a short astrological work, printed on his own press at Sagan., printed only a few days before with the author’s own type. Now I add the letter left out then for lack of time, and say only this one thing: that at the next fair, God helping, I mean to visit your Muses again, and to set out better in person what I ought perhaps to write now, and what you might be glad to know. For since the first volume of our Ephemerides, containing 20 years, from 17 to 37, is to be published at Frankfurt as soon as possible, on the advice of Mr Kepler, who lately lived here with me, I intend to go there, for many reasons to be explained in person, and from there to go back to Strasbourg on my own business; and in passing (as I said) more with you in person. …