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.
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.
Ante biduum . . mittebam exemplar Sportulae Keplerianae ante paucos etiam dies typis autoris excusae. Jam litteras ibi ob temporis angustiam omissas subjungo et nihil nisi hoc unicum significo, quod proximis nundinis, deo sic juvante, musas tuas revisere et quae fortassis scitu grata scribere jam deberem, coram melius exponere proposuerim. Cum enim primus Ephemeridum nostrarum Tomus, 20 annos a 17 ad 37 ann. continens, Francofurti edi quam primum debeat, consilio Dn. Kepleri, nuper mecum hic viventis, isthuc multas ob causas coram exponendas excurrere, indeque Argentinam etiam propter negotia mea repetere animus est; ubi in transitu (ut dixi) plura tecum coram. …