Granada, Miguel A. (Author)
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Volume: 45, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 91-122
from the first lines on page 10 to the abrupt end of the manuscript at the bottom of page 12 (where we find the usual indication of the first word of the following page, which is not preserved), the script changes to a very small and quick writing, with constant cancellations and abbreviations, resembling the first notes of an improvised writing to be polished later. [...]the state of this manuscript is completely different from that concerning the comet of 1618-19.8 In the latter case, besides the surprising fact that it is written in German, we find a fair copy extending from page 9 to 65 and containing chapters 3-9 with the two last pages of chapter 2, practically ready for print. Only three letters (all written by Kepler) are extant between March 1605 and June 1606.69 In none of them does Kepler mention his composition of an extensive Latin treatise on the nova. [...]it is not apparent that Maesdin had any knowledge of De Stella nova before it appeared in the autumn of 1606 and Kepler announced to Maestlin in a letter of 7 April 1607 that he was sending several copies of the book to Tübingen, including one for him.70 Spring 1607 seems too late a date for having caused the abandonment of a treatise whose writing went back two years earlier.
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