Bartsch to Müller, 3 September 1631
Jacob Bartsch, “Bartsch to Müller, 3 September 1631,” Nova Kepleriana 4, September 3, 1631, 105, transcribed in Plain Old Text, https://sources.vjbe.net/stable/qtqpy.
Nova Kepleriana 4 3 Sep, 1631, p. 105 Summary
Part of Die Keplerbriefe auf der Nationalbibliothek und auf der Sternwarte in Paris
Setting out with Kepler's widow for Prague, Regensburg, Linz and Vienna, Bartsch leaves instructions for selling the tables, *Ephemerides* and *Somnium*.
Source: Jacob Bartsch's letter to Philipp Müller written at Lauban on 3 September 1631, on the eve of setting out with Kepler's widow for Prague, Regensburg, Linz and Vienna, with instructions for his tables, the Ephemerides and the Somnium. The original is in the Bibliothèque de l'Observatoire, Paris (B, 1, 9; 89, 10. J. 11). 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), 105.
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.
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.
… Jam unicum hoc scribo: Hodie cum socru iter ingredior; faxit Deus, ut feliciori sidere et eventu, quam socer. Per Pragam, propter principis debita, Ratisponam propter haereditatis negotia, Lincium et Viennam, propter multa, si Deus voluerit, expediunda abire cogitamus.
… Now I write only this: today I set out on the journey with my mother-in-law; God grant it a happier star and a happier outcome than my father-in-law’s. We mean to go by way of Prague, because of the Prince’s debts;Wallenstein's arrears of Kepler's salary. to Regensburg, because of the business of the inheritance; and to Linz and Vienna, for many things to be settled, God willing.
Interim tabulas meas tecum retine, donec titulus et Praefatio addatur. Ephemerides et tabulas quotquot poteris, cognito pretio vendas obsecro. Somnii et Appendicis in majori charta exemplar unum (non manualis) trades quaeso juniori Voygtio, si petierit, ut videndum et aestimandum tradat viduae aut haeredibus Tampachii. Aliud exemplar Somnii alia occasione reddam. …
Meanwhile keep my tables with you until the title and preface are added. Please sell as many of the Ephemerides and the tables as you can, once you know the price. Please give one copy of the Somnium and of the Appendix on the larger paper (not the manual) to the younger Voigt, if he asks, for him to hand to Tampach’s widow or heirs to see and value. I shall send another copy of the Somnium on another occasion. …
Apud meos interim liberi Keppleriani manent. …
Meanwhile Kepler’s children are staying with my family. …