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Sämtliche Gedichte [Collected Poems], second revised and enlarged edition by Johannes Kepler edited and annotated by Friedrich Seck translations from Latin to German by Monika Balzert

HILDESHEIM: GEORG OLMS VERLAG, 2020, 543 PP., € 98.00, ISBN 978-3-487-31192-0

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  1. There have been several attempts at rendering this distich into English, e.g., “I measured the skies, now the shadows of the earth I measure. Sky-bound was the mind, the shadow of the body lies here” [9, p. 188] or “I used to measure the heavens, now I shall measure the shadows of the earth. Although my soul was from heaven, the shadow of my body lies here” [3, p. 359]. These differing translations reveal the ambiguity of the Latin coelos and coelestis and the double meaning of the genitive coelestis. A third example of the difficulty of rendering poetry into the poetic diction of a different language is “Within the narrow grave I now am pent, Who scanned the vast pavilion of the skies. Though spiritless in death my body lies, My mind on heavenly things was once intent” [2, p. 132].

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Albinus, HJ., Suckrau, D. Sämtliche Gedichte [Collected Poems], second revised and enlarged edition by Johannes Kepler edited and annotated by Friedrich Seck translations from Latin to German by Monika Balzert. Math Intelligencer 46, 92–95 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-021-10128-z

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