Re: VMs: Kepler & the VMS

[Nick Pelling <incoming@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rene,

At 06:02 24/04/2004 -0700, Rene Zandbergen wrote:
> > A good article by the excellent J.V.Field:-
>
> Thank you!
> Unless I am fully mistaken, she is the Kepler
> expert Gabriel met and who could not confirm
> any mention of the VMs in Kepler's writings.

It is indeed her: a few minutes talking with her would convince you that 
she is as ferociously well-briefed on esoteric minutiae as on bigger 
picture historical stuff - so, if there was even a flicker of a hint in 
Kepler's writings that he had seen something resembling the VMs, I'm quite 
sure that she would have been delighted to flag it.

AIUI, his main focus in his work and writing was on the observation (and 
observation errors) of the actual paths of the planets, rather than the 
paths predicted by Ptolemy etc: so I'm not sure what he would have had to 
say about the VMs' diagrams - "probably not a lot" is my best guess. :-o

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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