Michael Maestlin’s Manuscript Treatise on the Comet of 1618 An Edition and Translation of Manuscript WLB Stuttgart, Cod. Math. 4º 15b, Nr. 8 ... and Science, 33) (English and German Edition)

‎Contents\n‎Preface\n‎Figures\n‎Symbols of Planets and Zodiacal Signs\n‎Criteria of This Edition\n‎Introduction (Granada)\n	‎1. The Impact of the Comet of 1618 in Europe and Württemberg\n	‎2. Maestlin’s Treatise on the Comet of 1618\n	‎3. The Comets of 1618–1619 and Maestlin’s Observations\n	‎4. The Treatises of 1578 and 1580: A Mathematical and Astronomical Approach\n	‎5. From 1578 to 1618\n	‎6. Bartholomaeus Keckermann and His Assault on Celestial Comets\n	‎7. Maestlin’s Reply to Keckermann and the Partial Preservation of Aristotle\n	‎8. Sunspots and the Telescope Appear on the Scene\n	‎9. Maestlin, Schickard and Habrecht on Faulhaber and the Rosicrucians\n‎Michael Maestlin, Astronomischer Discurs von dem Cometen, so in Anno 1618, im Nouembri zu erscheinen angefangen und bis im Februario dis 1619 Jars am Himmel noch gesehen wirt (Manuscript WLB Stuttgart, Cod. Math. 4° 15b, Nr. 8)\n	‎Chapter 1. More Than One Comet Appeared in the Previous Year 1618\n	‎Chapter 2. On the First Emergence and Appearance of This Comet\n	‎Chapter 3. On the Course of This Comet, and the Signs and Constellations through Which It Passed\n	‎Chapter 4. That the Philosophers Are Divided in Opinion over Whether Comets Are Elementary or Ethereal, That Is, Whether They Are Generated and Brought into Being Here Below in the Air or High above in the Heavens\n	‎Chapter 5. Whether and How We May Find a Solution for the Two Opposing Opinions\n	‎Chapter 6. Whether Our Present Comet Possessed Any Sensible Parallax or Not, and How Far Away It May Have Been from the Earth\n	‎Chapter 7. That before This Time Many Other Comets Appeared and Were Observed Not in the Air, but in the Upper Heaven\n	‎Chapter 8. What Aristotle and Other Philosophers Might Have Been Missing That Led Them to Think about Comets the Wrong Way\n	‎Chapter 9. Several Questions Concerning Comets in General, and What Follows from Them\n	‎Appendix 1. Can Comets Be Predicted?\n	‎Appendix 2. Draft of a Letter to Duke Johann Friedrich to Apologize for the Delay in Presenting the Requested Report\n‎Bibliography\n‎Index of Biblical Passages\n‎Index of Persons