Bartsch to Müller, 7/17 November 1630

Source: Jacob Bartsch's letter to Philipp Müller written at Sagan on 7/17 November 1630, while Kepler was away at Regensburg, on printing small astronomical tables to make the Rudolphine Tables easier to use. Kepler had died at Regensburg two days earlier, on 5/15 November, though the news had not yet reached Sagan. The original is in the Bibliothèque de l'Observatoire, Paris (B, 1, 9; 89, 10. E. 6). 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), 98.

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.