Bartsch to Müller, 30 April 1629
Jacob Bartsch, “Bartsch to Müller, 30 April 1629,” Nova Kepleriana 4, April 30, 1629, 97, transcribed in Plain Old Text, https://sources.vjbe.net/stable/9rq15.
Nova Kepleriana 4 30 Apr, 1629, p. 97 Summary
Part of Die Keplerbriefe auf der Nationalbibliothek und auf der Sternwarte in Paris
Bartsch tells Müller he has agreed to compute ten years of ephemerides for Kepler, to be published at Frankfurt by Tampach, and that he and his brother work at the calculation night and day.
Source: Jacob Bartsch's letter to his teacher Philipp Müller written at Lauban on 30 April 1629, on his agreement with Kepler to compute the Ephemerides and their publication through Tampach at Frankfurt. The original is in the Bibliothèque de l'Observatoire, Paris (B, 1, 9; 89, 10. B. 2). 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.
Transcribed from: the page images of the 1927 printing.
Only the Latin is given; the editors’ German summary and notes are left out. The 1927 edition prints only extracts. Each paragraph below is one of its extracts, and the omission marks (…) are the editors’. Spaced type, which the editors used for emphasis, is given in italics.
… Me quod attinet, quoniam superioribus mensibus cum Dn. Keplero coram et per litteras de edendis Ephemeridibus nostris multum egi, tandem conclusi, ad 10 ipsi annos primum supputatas eas tradere, ut primo tempore primus Ephemeridum tomus edi possit. Ipse autem dum varias variis in locis occasiones imprimendi quaesivit, tandem etiam conclusit, per Tampachum sumtus refundentem Francofurti eas in lucem dare. Unde ut opinarunt ambo ad futuras nundinas autumnales prodibit Ephemeridum nostrarum tomus ab anno 1617 cum impressis 3 reliquis usque in annum 1636 vel certe 33 inclusive. Et haec est potissima caussa, quod calculum noctes diesque urgere cogor una cum fratre, sicque aliis rebus vacare nequeo. Responsorium sane Dn. Keplerus propterea edidit, quam etiam hac occasione mittere alias proposueram. …
Noluerim operam meam sociam denegare Dn. Keplero, qui praeter alias promissiones non contemnendas praemium laboris non exiguum ipse erogat. Plura quidem meditamur, sed adhuc incerta sunt omnia. Quamprimum in reliquis certi aliquid conclusum fuerit, non celabo. …