Crüger to Müller, 4/14 April 1624
Peter Crüger, “Crüger to Müller, 4/14 April 1624,” Nova Kepleriana 4, April 14, 1624, 108, transcribed in Plain Old Text, https://sources.vjbe.net/stable/8a45n.
Nova Kepleriana 4 14 Apr, 1624, p. 108 Summary
Part of Die Keplerbriefe auf der Nationalbibliothek und auf der Sternwarte in Paris
Crüger admires Kepler's acumen but will not subscribe to his hypotheses for Mars, hoping God will show another way to the true theory.
Source: Peter Crüger's letter to Philipp Müller of 4/14 April 1624, written at Danzig, on why he still will not accept Kepler's theory of Mars. The original is in the Bibliothèque de l'Observatoire, Paris (B, 1, 9; 89, 9. K. 32). 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.
Quin igitur, inquis, amplectamur Astronomiam Keppleri. Huius viri acumen et subtilitatem merito miror. Sed non omnia acuta etiam recta, inquit alicubi Lipsius … Non igitur hypothesibus Dn. Keppleri subscribo. Dabit, uti spero, Deus aliam rationem deprehendendae verae theoriae Martis.