Bartsch to Müller, 7/17 November 1630
Jacob Bartsch, “Bartsch to Müller, 7/17 November 1630,” Nova Kepleriana 4, November 17, 1630, 98, transcribed in Plain Old Text, https://sources.vjbe.net/stable/sy9yv.
Nova Kepleriana 4 17 Nov, 1630, p. 98 Summary
Part of Die Keplerbriefe auf der Nationalbibliothek und auf der Sternwarte in Paris
With Kepler away at Regensburg, Bartsch plans small astronomical tables to make the *Rudolphine Tables* easier to use, wishing his father-in-law a safe return; Kepler had died two days before.
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.
… Quia Dn. socer — quem dudum scriptis, jam facie et conversatione notum, Tibi, mihi, aliis, omnibus salvum et incolumem reducat Deus — potestatem reliquit interea hic imprimendi, quod lubet, quodque usibus Astronomicis accomodatum et ipso dudum sic consentiente, suadenteque et me varia tentante deliberanteque hactenus, conclusi cum typotheta, excudere in forma minori (12o) Tabulas aliquot Astronomico-Logisticas tam primi quam secundorum mobilium, nominatim Tabularum Rudolph. doctrinam usumque facilitantes aut saltem abbreviantes. …