Crüger to Müller, Palm Sunday 1628
Peter Crüger, “Crüger to Müller, Palm Sunday 1628,” Nova Kepleriana 4, 1628, 108, transcribed in Plain Old Text, https://sources.vjbe.net/stable/ckvgd.
Nova Kepleriana 4 1628, p. 108 Summary
Part of Die Keplerbriefe auf der Nationalbibliothek und auf der Sternwarte in Paris
Having seen the *Rudolphine Tables* announced in the Frankfurt catalogue, Crüger orders a copy and confesses a great longing for them.
Source: Peter Crüger's letter to Philipp Müller of Palm Sunday 1628, written at Danzig after he had seen the Rudolphine Tables announced in the Frankfurt fair catalogue. The original is in the Bibliothèque de l'Observatoire, Paris (B, 1, 9; 89, 9. M. 34). 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), 108.
Transcribed from: the page images of the 1927 printing.
Only the Latin is given; the editors’ German commentary 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.
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.
Vidi in Catalogo Francofurtano prodiisse Tabulas Keppleri Rudolfinas … Itaque ad Götzium scribo, ut mihi mittantur … Etsi Astronomiae jam parum vaco, tamen in futurum, si Deus hac aestate pacem nobis reddiderit, me praeparabo. Etsi quis Astrophilorum est, qui Tabulas istas, tot annos desideratas, sibi nolit? Ego tanto magis, quanto incertiorem me relinquit Severinus … Itaque desiderio Tabularum Keppleri teneor ingenti.
I have seen in the Frankfurt catalogue that Kepler’s Rudolphine Tables have come out … So I am writing to Götz to have them sent to me … Though I have little time for astronomy now, I shall prepare myself for the future, if God gives us back peace this summer. And is there any lover of the stars who would not want these Tables, longed for so many years? I want them all the more, the more uncertain Severin leaves meLongomontanus, whose Astronomia Danica (1622) Crüger had hoped would settle the matter. … So I am held by a great longing for Kepler’s Tables.