Crüger to Müller, 12/22 April 1634
Peter Crüger, “Crüger to Müller, 12/22 April 1634,” Nova Kepleriana 4, April 22, 1634, 111, transcribed in Plain Old Text, https://sources.vjbe.net/stable/evh7w.
Nova Kepleriana 4 22 Apr, 1634, p. 111 Summary
Part of Die Keplerbriefe auf der Nationalbibliothek und auf der Sternwarte in Paris
Crüger asks where the papers of Kepler and Bartsch and Tycho's observations now are, and wishes they were somewhere safe from the wars.
Source: Peter Crüger's letter to Philipp Müller written at Danzig on 12/22 April 1634, asking what has become of the papers of Kepler and Bartsch and of Tycho Brahe's observations. The original is in the Bibliothèque de l'Observatoire, Paris (B, 1, 9; 89, 9. Z. 46). 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), 111.
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.
Ubi quaeso jam latent scripta Keppleri, Bartschii et Observationes Tychonis? Quanta jactura perirent! Utinam conveherentur in locum a communibus turbis immunem!
Where, I ask you, are the writings of Kepler and Bartsch, and Tycho’s observations, hidden now? What a loss it would be if they perished! If only they were brought to some place safe from the common turmoil!